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God’s Warning Rejected

12 And they said, a“That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one1 obey the bdictates of his evil heart.”  
13 Therefore thus says the Lord:
a“Ask now among the Gentiles,
Who has heard such things?
The virgin of Israel has done ba very horrible thing. 
14 Will a man1 leave the snow water of Lebanon,
Which comes from the rock of the field?
Will the cold flowing waters be forsaken for strange waters? 
15 “Because My people have forgotten aMe,
They have burned incense to worthless idols.
And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways,
From the bancient paths,
To walk in pathways and not on a highway, 
16 To make their land adesolate and a perpetual bhissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head. 
17 aI will1 scatter them bas with an east wind before the enemy;
cI will show them the back and not the face
In the day of their calamity.”  

Jeremiah Persecuted

18 Then they said, a“Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; bfor the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.” 
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Barnes' Notes
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Jeremiah 18:14

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.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 18:14:

Zechariah 5:1

 

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