What Does Jeremiah 50:9 Mean?

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

lo!

i

“For lo I will raise”

to wake (literally or figuratively)

“and cause to come up”

to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

“against Babylon”

babel (i.e., babylon), including babylonia and the babylonian empire

“an assembly”

assemblage (usually concretely)

“nations”

a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

“of great”

great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent

“country”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

“from the north”

properly, hidden, i.e., dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown)

“and they shall set themselves in array”

to set in a row, i.e., arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)

there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence

“against her from thence she shall be taken”

to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere

“their arrows”

properly, a piercer, i.e., an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of god) thunder-bolt; the shaft of a spear

“shall be as of a mighty”

powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant

“expert man”

to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence, intelligent

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“none shall return”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“in vain”

emptily; figuratively (objective) ineffectually, (subjective) undeservedly