The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 49:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The Ammonitish community dissolved; every one earing for himself. Every man right forth; i.e. straight before him, in a wild panic which expels every thought but that of self-preservation. Him that wandereth.

Collectively for "the wanderers," i.e. the fugitives. So it is said of the Babylonians, that they are "like sheep with none to gather them."

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