What Does Jeremiah 48:32 Mean in the King James?
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The vine reaches across the sea, yet its wide reach does not shield its fruit from being taken.
THE MEANING
Your reach can extend far beyond where it began and still remain exposed to loss. The verse joins Jazer’s weeping to the grief over Sibmah’s stolen fruit: the lament travels as far as the branches. The abundance is real, and so is the devastation.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that visible fruitfulness or a wide reach guarantees that nothing can be taken from you.
THE ROOT
שֹׁדֵד
shōdēd
GROWS FROM
שדד
To deal violently with, devastate, or plunder.
The verse’s שֹׁדֵד (shōdēd, spoiler) belongs to שדד (shādad, devastate or plunder): the word names an active force falling upon the harvest. Its sibling שֹׁד (shōd, devastation or violence) makes the violence part of the same word-family as the one who brings it.
ALSO GROWS
shādad: To devastate or plunder.
שָׁדַד
The verb names the destructive action carried out by the spoiler.
shōd: Devastation, violence, or ruin.
שֹׁד
This branch shows that the spoiler brings more than ordinary loss: the root carries the force of devastation.
בְּצִירֵךְ
bəṣîrēkh
GROWS FROM
בצר
To cut off or gather grapes; also, to make inaccessible or fortified.
בְּצִירֵךְ (bəṣîrēkh, your vintage) grows from בצר (bāṣar, cut off or gather grapes), the same root that gives מִבְצָר (mivtsār, fortress). The root holds both the cutting that gathers a crop and the making of a place hard to reach, while this verse shows a harvest that remains exposed to the spoiler.
ALSO GROWS
bāṣar: To cut off or gather grapes.
בָּצַר
This verb reveals the cutting action inside the word for vintage.
mivtsār: Fortress or stronghold.
מִבְצָר
The shared root also names a place made difficult to reach, sharpening the contrast with a vineyard whose fruit is exposed.
bāṣūr: Fortified or inaccessible.
בָּצוּר
This branch carries the root’s sense of being cut off from access.
אֶבְכֶּה
ʾevkeh
GROWS FROM
בכה
To weep or lament.
אֶבְכֶּה (ʾevkeh, I will weep) echoes מִבְּכִי (mibbəkhî, from the weeping) in the same line. Both grow from בכה (bākhā, weep), so grief passes from Jazer to Sibmah in the verse’s own repeated sound.
ALSO GROWS
bekhî: Weeping or lament.
בְּכִי
This noun appears in the phrase about Jazer’s weeping, which the speaker’s grief echoes.
bākhā: To weep.
בָּכָה
This verb names the speaker’s response, repeating the same root as the neighboring noun.
THE PATTERN
The fruit of long cultivation can be lost when forces strip it from those who expected to gather it.
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.THE THREAD
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.Isaiah names the same vine of Sibmah and traces its branches to Jazer and the sea. Jeremiah compresses that same landscape into a lament: the vineyard’s far reach is also the reach of its loss.
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