decree. prescribed limit or boundary. So the Oxford Gesenius, p. 349. Compare Job 26:10; Job 38:10; Proverbs 8:29; Isaiah 24:5.Jeremiah 5:22. Hebrew. chok.
be far removed. become distant: i.e. extended. See the Oxford Gesenius, p. 935. Hebrew. rachak, as in Isaiah 26:15. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6), yir'chok.