耶利米书 18:14

Chinese Union (Simplified)

利 巴 嫩 的 雪 从 田 野 的 磐 石 上 岂 能 断 绝 呢 ？ 从 远 处 流 下 的 凉 水 岂 能 乾 涸 呢 ？

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
黎巴嫩山上巖石的積雪融化過嗎？從遠處流下清涼的溪水乾涸過嗎？

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Will: John 6:68

the snow: etc. or, my fields for a rock, or for the snow of Lebanon? shall the running waters be forsaken for the strange cold waters? Parkhurst renders, "Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Or will the issuing cold flowing waters - from that mountain namely be exhausted?" - See Targ., LXX, and Vulg. No more could I fail my people if they trusted in me. - Compare Jeremiah 2:13. Maundrell says, "The chief benefit the mountain of Lebanon serves for, is, that by its exceeding height, it proves a conservatory for abundance of snow, which thawing in the heat of summer, affords supplies of water to the rivers and fountains in the valleys below.

Reciprocal: Proverbs 25:25 - cold Song of Solomon 4:15 - streams Isaiah 8:6 - that go softly Jeremiah 2:10 - and see

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon, [which cometh] from the rock of the field?.... Lebanon was a mountain on the borders of Judea, the top of which was covered in the summertime with snow, from the whiteness of which it had its name, Lebanon; as the Alps, for the same reason, which lie between France and Italy: now, the snow being dissolved by the heat, ran in flowing streams down the rocks into the field and plain, where they might be easily come at, and drank of; and would a thirsty traveller, on a summer's day, pass by such streams as these, and not drink of them? certainly he would not leave them, but stop and drink; he must be an unwise man that should do otherwise; and yet this was what the people of the Jews did; they forsook the Lord, "the fountain of living waters"; and who, because of the plenty of good things in him, and flowing from him to them, were as streams from Lebanon; and yet they left these crystal streams for the black and muddy waters of Sihor, or idols of Egypt, Song of Solomon 4:15; or the words may be rendered, "will a man leave [what comes] from the rock of the field [for] the snow of Lebanon" x? that is, will a man neglect to drink of the water that comes out of a rock in his field, pure and clear, and is near at hand, and choose to go to Mount Lebanon to drink of the snow water, which runs down the mountain, and can never be thought so clear as what comes out of the rock? surely he will not; he must act an unwise part if he does; and such a part, and worse, did the people of the Jews act, in forsaking God:

[or] shall the cold flowing waters which come from another place be forsaken? or, "strange waters" y; which come from far, from some distant rock, being conveyed in pipes, in; which they come cool, and in flowing streams, for the service of a city and its inhabitants; and who, having such a privilege, would neglect them, and drink of standing water in a pond or puddle? or, the words, as the former, may be rendered, "shall for strange frozen waters, be left flowing ones?" see Grotius.

x היעזוב מצור שדי שלג לבנון "nunquid deserit aliquis [aquam manatem] de petra agri, [ut biblat] nivem Libani"; so some in Vatablus. y מים זרים "aquae alienae", Schmidt, Montanus; "peregrinae", De Dieu.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rather, “Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field?” The meaning probably is, “Will the snow of Lebanon fail from its rocks which tower above the land of Israel?” The appeal of the prophet is to the unchangeableness of one of nature’s most beautiful phenomena, the perpetual snow upon the upper summits of Lebanon.

Shall the cold ... - literally, “shall the strange, i. e., foreign, “cool, down-flowing waters be plucked up?” The general sense is: God is Israel’s Rock, from whom the never-failing waters flow Jeremiah 2:13 : but men may and do abandon the cool waters which descend front above to seek their happiness in channels of their own digging.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 18:14. Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon — Lebanon was the highest mountain in Judea. Would any man in his senses abandon a farm that was always watered by the melted snows of Lebanon, and take a barren rock in its place? How stupid therefore and absurd are my people, who abandon the everlasting God for the worship of idols!