Jeremiah 49:36 - Exposition

An emblem of the utter hopelessness of escape. The four winds (figuratively spoken of by Zechariah ( Zechariah 6:5 ) as "presenting themselves" before God, to receive his commissions) shall combine their forces to scatter the doomed nation. The outcasts of Elam. This is the marginal reading in the Hebrew Bible; the text has, "the perpetual outcasts." No philological eye can doubt that the correction should be admitted (a yod for a vav ) .