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?
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Gill's Exposition
To make their land desolate,.... Not that this was the intention either of those that led them out of the right way into those wrong paths, or of them that went into them; but so it was eventually;…
Barnes' Notes
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…
These verses seem to be the application of the general truths laid down in the foregoing part of the chapter to the nation of the Jews and their present state.
I. God was now speaking concerning them…
Cambridge Bible
The unnatural conduct of Israel (cp. Jer 8:7) is illustrated.
rock of the field The strangeness of the expression has led to the conjectural substitution for "field" (sâdeh) of either (a) Shaddai, a…