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and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/jeremiah/48-11.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kelly/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Kelly Commentary">Kelly</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/jeremiah/49.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/jeremiah/49.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/jeremiah/49.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/jeremiah/49.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>49:28-33 Nebuchadnezzar would make desolation among the people of Kedar, who dwelt in the deserts of Arabia. He who conquered many strong cities, will not leave those unconquered that dwell in tents. He will do this to gratify his own covetousness and ambition; but God orders it for correcting an unthankful people, and for warning a careless world to expect trouble when they seem most safe. They shall flee, get far off, and dwell deep in the deserts; they shall be dispersed. But privacy and obscurity are not always protection and security.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/jeremiah/49.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Them ... corners - Or, those who clip the corners of their beards (compare <a href="/jeremiah/9-26.htm">Jeremiah 9:26</a>). <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/jeremiah/49.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>32. camels—their chief possessions; not fields or vineyards.<p>in utmost … corners—who seemed least likely to be dispersed. Or else, "having the hair shaven (or clipped) in angles" (Jer 9:26; 25:23) [Grotius].<p>calamity from all sides—which will force even those in "corners" to "scatter" themselves.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/jeremiah/49.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil:</span> these words sound like a part of the king of Babylon’s supposed speech encouraging his soldiers from the booty they should get, which should be a great multitude of camels and other cattle; the latter words are the words of the prophet, in the name of the Lord, threatening ruin to these Kedarens and Hazorites, though they lived in corners, and might upon that account think themselves secure; God saith he would fetch them out of their utmost corners, and bring calamity from all parts upon them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/jeremiah/49.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And their camels shall be a booty,.... To the Chaldean army, as before, <a href="/jeremiah/49-29.htm">Jeremiah 49:29</a>; <p>and the multitude of their cattle a spoil; to the same; the Kedarenes had large flocks of sheep, as well as a multitude of camels, on which they lived, and in which their substance lay; see <a href="/isaiah/60-6.htm">Isaiah 60:6</a>; <p>and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; them that were gone with their flocks to feed them in the uttermost parts of their land; who, on hearing of the Chaldean army being entered and ravaging their country, would leave their flocks, and flee and be dispersed in the several parts of the world: or, "them that are cut in the corner" (u); in the corners of their beard; that have their hair cut all around, as the Arabians had; See Gill on <a href="/jeremiah/9-26.htm">Jeremiah 9:26</a>; <p>and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the Lord; suggesting that Nebuchadnezzar should surround them with his army, and so dispose of his troops, by placing them some in one part, and some in another, that they should not be able to escape on any side. It denotes their utter destruction and desolation. <p>(u) "attonsi comam", V. L. "praecisi lateribus", Piscator. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/jeremiah/49.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/jeremiah/49.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">32</span>. <span class="ital">that have the corners</span> of their hair <span class="ital">polled</span>] See on ch. <a href="/jeremiah/9-26.htm" title="Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.">Jeremiah 9:26</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/49.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 32.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Them</span> that are <span class="cmt_word">in the utmost corners.</span> Another of Jeremiah's characteristic phrases, which should rather be tendered, <span class="accented">the corner clipped</span> (<span class="accented">i.e.</span> having the hair cut off about the ears and temples; see on Jeremiah 9:26). <span class="cmt_word">From all sides.</span> "Nebuchadnezzar will so arrange his troops that the Bedaween [but the people of Hazer were not Bedaween, <span class="accented">i.e.</span> desert Arabs] will be surrounded on all sides, and, being thus unable to escape in a body, will be scattered to 'all the winds,' to the four quarters of the earth" (Dr. Payne Smith). Jeremiah 49:32<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/jeremiah/49.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div><a href="/jeremiah/49-31.htm">Jeremiah 49:31</a> does not declare the plan of the king of Babylon; but the words, "Arise, go ye up," etc., are once more the summons of the Lord, as is shown by the expression "saith Jahveh." The enemy is to march against a peaceful nation, dwelling securely, that has neither doors nor bars, i.e., does not live in cities surrounded by walls with gates and bars (cf. <a href="/1_samuel/23-7.htm">1 Samuel 23:7</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/3-5.htm">Deuteronomy 3:5</a>), whose territory, therefore, is easily conquered. They dwell alone, apart from others, without connection and intercourse with other nations, from which they could obtain help and support. שׁליו, like זעיר, <a href="/job/36-2.htm">Job 36:2</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/7-8.htm">Daniel 7:8</a>, is a Chaldaizing form; elsewhere it is written שׁליו, <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-23.htm">Job 21:23</a>, or שׁלו, <a href="/job/16-12.htm">Job 16:12</a>. As to living securely, cf. <a href="/judges/18-7.htm">Judges 18:7</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/38-11.htm">Ezekiel 38:11</a>; on living alone, 15:17. This last is elsewhere said only of Israel, <a href="/numbers/23-9.htm">Numbers 23:9</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/33-28.htm">Deuteronomy 33:28</a>. Their possessions will become the spoil of the enemy; God will scatter them to every wind (cf. <a href="/ezekiel/5-12.htm">Ezekiel 5:12</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/12-14.htm">Ezekiel 12:14</a>), and bring destruction on them from every side (on עבריו, cf. <a href="/1_kings/5-4.htm">1 Kings 5:4</a>).<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Jeremiah 49:32 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/49-31.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 49:31"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 49:31" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/49-33.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 49:33"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 49:33" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>