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?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Snow. It continues on Libanus seven or eight months, (La Roque quoted. Univ. Hist. ii. p. 363) or all the year; (Tacitus, Hist. v. 6.) and hence the mountain is justly denominated "white "as the Alps and Albion are from albon. (Bo chart; Parkhurst, p. 155.) (Haydock)
Away. Yet my people abandon me, to serve idols! Hebrew may have many other senses to the same purpose. Septuagint, "Shall the mountain springs fail, or snow from Libanus? Shall a stream forcibly driven by the wind, turn aside? "(Haydock)
The laws of nature are observed by inanimate things, and shall my people be so foolish as to follow mere vanity.
