OET interlinear YIR (JER) 18:14

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

(Occurrence 0) Does the snow in Lebanon ever leave the rocky hills on its sides?

(Some words not found in UHB: does,it_leave? from_[the],rock_of highland snow_of Ləⱱānōn if fail waters distant cold flowing )

Yahweh asks this rhetorical question to emphasize that the snow on the mountains never melts. Alternate translation: [The snow in Lebanon never leaves the rocky hills on its sides.]

(Occurrence 0) the rocky hills on its sides

(Some words not found in UHB: does,it_leave? from_[the],rock_of highland snow_of Ləⱱānōn if fail waters distant cold flowing )

Alternate translation: [the sides of the rocky hills]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

(Occurrence 0) Are the mountain streams coming from far away ever destroyed, those cold streams?

(Some words not found in UHB: does,it_leave? from_[the],rock_of highland snow_of Ləⱱānōn if fail waters distant cold flowing )

Yahweh asks this rhetorical question to emphasize that the mountain streams never cease to flow. He speaks of the streams drying up as if they were destroyed. Alternate translation: [Those cold mountain streams that come from far away never cease to flow.] (See also: figs-metaphor)