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14 Does the snow of Lebanon leave
    the crags of Sirion?[a]
Do the mountain[b] waters run dry,[c]
    the cold flowing streams?
15 But my people have forgotten me;
    they burn offerings to a delusion;
they have stumbled[d] in their ways,
    in the ancient roads,
and have gone into bypaths,
    not the highway,(A)
16 making their land a horror,
    a thing to be hissed at forever.
All who pass by it are horrified
    and shake their heads.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 18.14 Cn: Heb of the field
  2. 18.14 Cn: Heb foreign
  3. 18.14 Cn: Heb Are . . . plucked up?
  4. 18.15 Gk Syr Vg: Heb they made them stumble