32 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners (of their hair) cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.
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Them corners - Or, those who clip the corners of their beards (compare Jeremiah 9:26).
The utmost corners - Even in these utmost inaccessible recesses the sword and pillage shall reach them. "'The utmost corners;' insulated coasts; the peninsula of Arabia." - Blayney.
And their camels shall be a booty,.... To the Chaldean army, as before, Jeremiah 49:29;
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 Isaiah 60:6;
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 Jeremiah 9:26;
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.
(u) "attonsi comam", V. L. "praecisi lateribus", Piscator.
camels--their chief possessions; not fields or vineyards.
in utmost . . . corners--who seemed least likely to be dispersed. Or else, "having the hair shaven (or clipped) in angles" (Jeremiah 9:26; Jeremiah 25:23) [GROTIUS].
calamity from all sides--which will force even those in "corners" to "scatter" themselves.
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