What Does Jeremiah 49:32 Mean?

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“And their camels”

a camel

“shall be a booty”

plunder

“and the multitude”

a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth

“of their cattle”

something bought, i.e., property, but only live stock; abstractly, acquisition

“a spoil”

booty

“and I will scatter”

to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“into all winds”

wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the

“them that are in the utmost”

to chop off (literally or figuratively)

“corners”

properly, mouth in a figurative sense, i.e., direction, region, extremity

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“from all sides”

properly, a region across; but used only adverbially (with or without a preposition) on the opposite side (especially of the jordan; ususally meaning

“and I will bring”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“their calamity”

oppression; by implication misfortune, ruin

“thereof saith”

an oracle

“the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god