Jeremiah 18:14-16
Easy-to-Read Version
14 It is as strange as not finding snow on Lebanon’s mountains
or seeing the cool streams that come from there stop flowing.
That just does not happen!
15 But my people have forgotten me.
They burn offerings to worthless idols.
They have left the right way that their ancestors followed,
and they stumble on the path they have chosen.
Instead of staying on the good road I showed them,
they prefer to walk on bumpy paths.
16 So their land will become an empty desert,
a place for people from now on to make fun of.
All who pass by there will be shocked by what has happened.
They will just shake their heads at what they see.
Jeremiah 18:14-16
King James Version
14 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?
15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
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Jeremiah 18:14-16
New King James Version
14 Will a man [a]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 (A)Me,
They have burned incense to worthless idols.
And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways,
From the (B)ancient paths,
To walk in pathways and not on a highway,
16 To make their land (C)desolate and a perpetual (D)hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 18:14 forsake
Jeremiah 18:14-16
English Standard Version
14 Does the snow of Lebanon leave
the crags of Sirion?[a]
Do the mountain waters run dry,[b]
the cold flowing streams?
15 (A)But my people have forgotten me;
they make offerings to (B)false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
(C)in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
(D)not the highway,
16 making their land (E)a horror,
a thing (F)to be hissed at forever.
(G)Everyone who passes by it is horrified
(H)and shakes his head.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 18:14 Hebrew of the field
- Jeremiah 18:14 Hebrew Are foreign waters plucked up
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