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Do its cool waters from distant sources ever stop flowing?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/18.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Does the snow ever disappear from the mountaintops of Lebanon? Do the cold streams flowing from those distant mountains ever run dry?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/jeremiah/18.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/18.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/18.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Will <i>a man</i> leave the snow of Lebanon <i>which cometh</i> from the rock of the field? <i>or</i> shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/18.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Will <i>a man</i> leave the snow water of Lebanon, <i>Which comes</i> from the rock of the field? Will the cold flowing waters be forsaken for strange waters?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/18.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />‘Does the snow of Lebanon leave the rock of the open country alone? Or is the cold flowing water <i>from</i> a foreign <i>land</i> ever dried up?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/18.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Does the snow of Lebanon forsake the rock of the open country? Or is the cold flowing water from a foreign land ever snatched away?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/18.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘Does the snow of Lebanon forsake the rock of the open country? Or is the cold flowing water <i>from</i> a foreign <i>land</i> ever snatched away?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jeremiah/18.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Does the snow of Lebanon forsake the rock of the open country? Or is the cold flowing water <i>from</i> a strange <i>land</i> ever uprooted?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jeremiah/18.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />‘Will the snow of [Mount] Lebanon melt <i>and</i> vanish from its rocks [which tower above Israel]? Will the cold, rushing waters of foreign <i>lands</i> [that flow down from the distant land] be dried up?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jeremiah/18.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave the highland crags? Or does cold water flowing from a distance ever fail?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/18.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave the highland crags? Or does cold water flowing from a distance ever fail? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/18.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jeremiah/18.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The snow on Lebanon's mountains never melts away, and the streams there never run dry. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/18.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jeremiah/18.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />The rocky slopes of Lebanon are never without snow. The cool mountain streams never dry up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jeremiah/18.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Are Lebanon's rocky heights ever without snow? Do its cool mountain streams ever run dry? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jeremiah/18.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Does the snow of Lebanon ever vanish from its rocky slopes? Or does the cold water from a foreign land ever cease to flow?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jeremiah/18.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jeremiah/18.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Does the snow ever completely vanish from the rocky slopes of Lebanon? Do the cool waters from those distant mountains ever cease to flow? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jeremiah/18.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/18.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/18.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up? <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/18.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Does snow of Lebanon "" Cease from the rock of the field? Will the cold strange [waters] that are flowing be forsaken?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/18.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jeremiah/18.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Shall the field cut loose from the rock the snow of Lebanon? or shall the cold flowing waters of an inundation be dried up?<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/18.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Shall now the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/18.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Do the snows of Lebanon fail to fall on the rocks of the field? Or are the cold waters, which burst forth and flow down, able to be rooted out?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/18.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Does the snow of Lebanon desert the rocky heights? Do the gushing waters dry up that flow fresh down the mountains? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/18.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams?<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/18.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Does the green grass vanish from the mountain or the snow leave Lebanon? Does the cold water that gushes out and runs down cease from flowing?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/18.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />If the snow departs from The Mount of Breasts and from Lebanon, and if foreign cold waters that flow are withheld<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/jeremiah/18.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Doth the snow of Lebanon fail From the rock of the field? Or are the strange cold flowing waters Plucked up?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/jeremiah/18.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Will fertilising streams fail <i>to flow</i> from a rock, or snow <i>fail</i> from Libanus? will water violently impelled by the wind turn aside?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=5445" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/18.htm">The Potter and the Clay</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">13</span>Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing. <span class="reftext">14</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7950.htm" title="7950: še·leḡ (N-msc) -- Snow. From shalag; snow.">Does the snow</a> <a href="/hebrew/3844.htm" title="3844: lə·ḇā·nō·wn (N-proper-fs) -- A wooded mountain range on the N. border of Isr. From lbab; white mountain; Lebanon, a mountain range in Palestine.">of Lebanon</a> <a href="/hebrew/5800.htm" title="5800: hă·ya·‘ă·zōḇ (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To loosen, relinquish, permit. A primitive root; to loosen, i.e. Relinquish, permit, etc.">ever leave</a> <a href="/hebrew/6697.htm" title="6697: miṣ·ṣūr (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- Rock, cliff. Or tsur; from tsuwr; properly, a cliff; generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge.">its rocky</a> <a href="/hebrew/7704.htm" title="7704: śā·ḏay (N-ms) -- Field, land. Or saday; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field.">slopes?</a> <a href="/hebrew/518.htm" title="518: ’im- (Conj) -- If. A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!">Or</a> <a href="/hebrew/7119.htm" title="7119: qā·rîm (Adj-mp) -- Cool. Contracted from an unused root meaning to chill; cool; figuratively, quiet.">do its cool</a> <a href="/hebrew/4325.htm" title="4325: ma·yim (N-mp) -- Waters, water. Dual of a primitive noun; water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen.">waters</a> <a href="/hebrew/5140.htm" title="5140: nō·wz·lîm (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- To flow, trickle, drop, distill. A primitive root; to drip, or shed by trickling.">flowing</a> <a href="/hebrew/2114.htm" title="2114: zā·rîm (Adj-mp) -- A primitive root; to turn aside; hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically to commit adultery.">from a distance</a> <a href="/hebrew/5428.htm" title="5428: yin·nā·ṯə·šū (V-Nifal-Imperf-3mp) -- To pull or pluck up, root out. A primitive root; to tear away.">ever run dry?</a> </span><span class="reftext">15</span>Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/55-10.htm">Isaiah 55:10-11</a></span><br />For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat, / so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/6-15.htm">Job 6:15-17</a></span><br />But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow, / darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow, / but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/147-17.htm">Psalm 147:17-18</a></span><br />He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast? / He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/41-18.htm">Isaiah 41:18</a></span><br />I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/44-27.htm">Isaiah 44:27</a></span><br />who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/38-29.htm">Job 38:29-30</a></span><br />From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven, / when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/104-10.htm">Psalm 104:10-13</a></span><br />He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains. / They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst. / The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/50-2.htm">Isaiah 50:2</a></span><br />Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/35-6.htm">Isaiah 35:6-7</a></span><br />Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. / The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/107-33.htm">Psalm 107:33-35</a></span><br />He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground, / and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers. / He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/43-19.htm">Isaiah 43:19-20</a></span><br />Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert. / The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/7-24.htm">Matthew 7:24-27</a></span><br />Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. / The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock. / But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/4-13.htm">John 4:13-14</a></span><br />Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. / But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/7-37.htm">John 7:37-38</a></span><br />On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. / Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/22-1.htm">Revelation 22:1-2</a></span><br />Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb / down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which comes from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?</p><p class="hdg">Will.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/john/6-68.htm">John 6:68</a></b></br> Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.</p><p class="hdg">the snow, etc.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/5-15.htm">Afar</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-8.htm">Cease</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-7.htm">Cold</a> <a href="/songs/4-6.htm">Cool</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-26.htm">Country</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-26.htm">Distant</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-10.htm">Dried</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-6.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-18.htm">Fail</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-6.htm">Failed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-3.htm">Field</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-17.htm">Flow</a> <a href="/jeremiah/11-5.htm">Flowing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-19.htm">Foreign</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-13.htm">Forsake</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-13.htm">Forsaken</a> <a href="/isaiah/60-13.htm">Lebanon</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-26.htm">Mountains</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-3.htm">Open</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-17.htm">Plucked</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-4.htm">Rock</a> <a href="/psalms/78-16.htm">Rocky</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-17.htm">Run</a> <a href="/psalms/29-6.htm">Sirion</a> <a href="/isaiah/11-14.htm">Slopes</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-4.htm">Snatched</a> <a href="/isaiah/55-10.htm">Snow</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-18.htm">Sources</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-4.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-18.htm">Streams</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-11.htm">Top</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-6.htm">Vanish</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-13.htm">Water</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-13.htm">Waters</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-9.htm">White</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/23-23.htm">Afar</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-10.htm">Cease</a> <a href="/nahum/3-17.htm">Cold</a> <a href="/luke/16-24.htm">Cool</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-10.htm">Country</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-23.htm">Distant</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-10.htm">Dried</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-10.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-11.htm">Fail</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-11.htm">Failed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-1.htm">Field</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-12.htm">Flow</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-22.htm">Flowing</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-20.htm">Foreign</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-33.htm">Forsake</a> <a href="/jeremiah/19-4.htm">Forsaken</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-6.htm">Lebanon</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-5.htm">Mountains</a> <a href="/jeremiah/19-14.htm">Open</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-40.htm">Plucked</a> <a href="/jeremiah/21-13.htm">Rock</a> <a href="/jeremiah/21-13.htm">Rocky</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-21.htm">Run</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/3-9.htm">Sirion</a> <a href="/numbers/21-15.htm">Slopes</a> <a href="/joel/1-5.htm">Snatched</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-7.htm">Snow</a> <a href="/job/28-11.htm">Sources</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-28.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-9.htm">Streams</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-6.htm">Top</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-36.htm">Vanish</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-15.htm">Water</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-9.htm">Waters</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-18.htm">White</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 18</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-1.htm">Under the type of a potter is shown God's absolute power in disposing of nations.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-11.htm">Judgments threatened to Judah for her strange revolt.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/18-18.htm">Jeremiah prays against his conspirators.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The snow on these mountains was a well-known feature in the ancient Near East, symbolizing constancy and reliability. Lebanon's mountains, particularly Mount Hermon, were visible from much of Israel and were a source of fresh water. The rhetorical question implies that just as the snow is a constant presence, so should be the faithfulness of God's people. The snow's persistence is a metaphor for God's enduring covenant with Israel, which the people have abandoned. This imagery is also used in other scriptures, such as <a href="/psalms/133-3.htm">Psalm 133:3</a>, where the dew of Hermon is mentioned, symbolizing blessing and life.<p><b>Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?</b><br>The cool waters refer to the streams and rivers fed by the melting snow of Lebanon, which were vital for the surrounding regions. These waters were known for their purity and life-giving properties, essential for agriculture and daily life. The phrase suggests the reliability and abundance of these waters, contrasting with the spiritual drought experienced by Israel due to their unfaithfulness. The rhetorical question emphasizes the absurdity of these waters running dry, paralleling the unnaturalness of Israel's spiritual infidelity. In a broader biblical context, water often symbolizes life and cleansing, as seen in <a href="/john/4-14.htm">John 4:14</a>, where Jesus speaks of the living water that quenches spiritual thirst eternally. This connection highlights the idea of God's provision and the sustenance He offers, which Israel has forsaken.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a></b><br>A major prophet in the Old Testament, known for his messages of warning and hope to the people of Judah. He is the author of the Book of Jeremiah.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/l/lebanon.htm">Lebanon</a></b><br>A region known for its majestic mountains and cedar trees. In this context, it symbolizes something constant and reliable.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/r/rocky_slopes.htm">Rocky Slopes</a></b><br>Refers to the stable and enduring nature of the mountains in Lebanon, which are perpetually covered with snow.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/c/cool_waters.htm">Cool Waters</a></b><br>Symbolizes purity, refreshment, and the life-giving nature of God's provision.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a></b><br>The southern kingdom of Israel, to whom Jeremiah was prophesying. They were often warned about their unfaithfulness to God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness_and_constancy.htm">God's Faithfulness and Constancy</a></b><br>Just as the snow and waters of Lebanon are constant, so is God's faithfulness. We can trust in His unchanging nature and promises.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_spiritual_drift.htm">The Danger of Spiritual Drift</a></b><br>The rhetorical questions in <a href="/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Jeremiah 18:14</a> highlight the absurdity of turning away from God, who is as reliable as the natural phenomena described.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_spiritual_nourishment.htm">The Importance of Spiritual Nourishment</a></b><br>Like the cool waters that never run dry, we must seek spiritual nourishment from God's Word and presence to sustain our faith.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_purity_and_refreshment.htm">Symbolism of Purity and Refreshment</a></b><br>The imagery of snow and cool waters reminds us of the purity and refreshment that come from a relationship with God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance_and_return.htm">Call to Repentance and Return</a></b><br>Jeremiah's message is a call to Judah to return to God, recognizing that He is the source of life and stability.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_18.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 18</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/can_a_fountain_cleanse_sin_literally.htm">Zechariah 13:1 - How can a 'fountain' literally cleanse sin and impurity, and is there historical or scientific evidence of such an event occurring?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_god_renew_israel's_covenant.htm">How can God renew a covenant with Israel in Jeremiah 3:1-8 despite Deuteronomy 24:1-4 forbidding reunions after divorce?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_for_drought_in_jeremiah_14_1-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:1-6: Does any historical or archeological evidence confirm or challenge the account of a severe drought at that time?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/can_jer._9_15's_'wormwood'_be_historical.htm">Jeremiah 9:15 mentions God giving 'wormwood' and 'poisoned water' as judgment--can this be reconciled with known scientific or historical data?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/18.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(14) <span class= "bld">Will a man leave . . .?</span>--The interpolated words "a man" pervert the meaning of the verse, which should run thus: <span class= "ital">Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold </span>(or, with some commentators, "rushing ") <span class= "ital">flowing waters from afar </span>(literally, <span class= "ital">strange, </span>or, as some take it, <span class= "ital">that dash down</span>)<span class= "ital"> be dried up? </span>The questions imply an answer in the negative, and assert in a more vivid form what had been expressed more distinctly, though less poetically, in <a href="/jeremiah/2-13.htm" title="For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.">Jeremiah 2:13</a>. The strength of Jehovah was like the unfailing snow of Lebanon (the "white" or snow mountain, like Mont Blanc or Snowdon), like the dashing stream that flows from heights so distant that they belong to a strange country, and which along its whole course was never dried up, and yet men forsook that strength for their own devices. The "streams of Lebanon" appear as the type of cool refreshing waters in <a href="/songs/4-15.htm" title="A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.">Song of Solomon 4:15</a>. The term "rock of the field" is applied in <a href="/jeremiah/17-3.htm" title="O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures to the spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.">Jeremiah 17:3</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/21-13.htm" title="Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, said the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?">Jeremiah 21:13</a> to Jerusalem, but there is no reason why it should not be used of Lebanon or any other mountain soaring above the plain. The notion that the prophet spoke of the brook Gihon on Mount Zion, as fed, by an underground channel, from the snows of Lebanon, has not sufficient evidence to commend it, but the "dew of Hermon, <span class= "ital">and as the dew </span>that descended upon the mountains of Zion" (<a href="/psalms/133-3.htm" title="As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended on the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for ever more.">Psalm 133:3</a>) presents, to say the least, a suggestive parallel. Possibly the prophet has the Jordan in his mind. Tacitus (<span class= "ital">Hist. v.</span> 6) describes it as fed by the snows of Lebanon, the summit of which is, in his expressive language, faithful to its snows through the heat of summer.<p><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Does the snow</span><br /><span class="heb">שֶׁ֣לֶג</span> <span class="translit">(še·leḡ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7950.htm">Strong's 7950: </a> </span><span class="str2">Snow</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Lebanon</span><br /><span class="heb">לְבָנ֑וֹן</span> <span class="translit">(lə·ḇā·nō·wn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3844.htm">Strong's 3844: </a> </span><span class="str2">Lebanon -- a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">ever leave</span><br /><span class="heb">הֲיַעֲזֹ֥ב</span> <span class="translit">(hă·ya·‘ă·zōḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5800.htm">Strong's 5800: </a> </span><span class="str2">To loosen, relinquish, permit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">its rocky</span><br /><span class="heb">מִצּ֛וּר</span> <span class="translit">(miṣ·ṣūr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6697.htm">Strong's 6697: </a> </span><span class="str2">A cliff, a rock, boulder, a refuge, an edge</span><br /><br /><span class="word">slopes?</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׂדַ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(śā·ḏay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7704.htm">Strong's 7704: </a> </span><span class="str2">Field, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Or</span><br /><span class="heb">אִם־</span> <span class="translit">(’im-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_518.htm">Strong's 518: </a> </span><span class="str2">Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not</span><br /><br /><span class="word">do its cool</span><br /><span class="heb">קָרִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(qā·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7119.htm">Strong's 7119: </a> </span><span class="str2">Cool, quiet</span><br /><br /><span class="word">waters</span><br /><span class="heb">מַ֛יִם</span> <span class="translit">(ma·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4325.htm">Strong's 4325: </a> </span><span class="str2">Water, juice, urine, semen</span><br /><br /><span class="word">flowing</span><br /><span class="heb">נוֹזְלִֽים׃</span> <span class="translit">(nō·wz·lîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5140.htm">Strong's 5140: </a> </span><span class="str2">To flow, trickle, drop, distill</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from a distance</span><br /><span class="heb">זָרִ֥ים</span> <span class="translit">(zā·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2114.htm">Strong's 2114: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery</span><br /><br /><span class="word">ever run dry?</span><br /><span class="heb">יִנָּתְשׁ֗וּ</span> <span class="translit">(yin·nā·ṯə·šū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5428.htm">Strong's 5428: </a> </span><span class="str2">To pull or pluck up, root out</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Jeremiah 18:14 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Jeremiah 18:14 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Jeremiah 18:14 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Jeremiah 18:14 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Jeremiah 18:14 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Jeremiah 18:14 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Jeremiah 18:14 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Jeremiah 18:14 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Jeremiah 18:14 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/jeremiah/18-14.htm">Jeremiah 18:14 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/jeremiah/18-14.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 18:14 Shall the snow of Lebanon fail (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/18-13.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 18:13"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 18:13" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/18-15.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 18:15"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 18:15" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>