Translations
Modern
Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
Traditional
The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
Literal
From the voice of the horsemen and the bowman every city is fleeing! They will go into thickets, and go up into the rocks; every city is forsaken, and there is not a man dwelling in them.
Latin
A voce equitis et mittentis sagittam fugit omnis civitas: ingressi sunt ardua, et ascenderunt rupes: universæ urbes derelictæ sunt, et non habitat in eis homo.
Original
Hebrew
English
Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
Notes
flees...enter...climb: Panic took hold of the people of Judah because of the war's horrors. Their arrogance and smug confidence vanished (see Jeremiah 6:23–24).
Events
- Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC
Glossary
Topics
Archery in War Armies were Composed of Bowmen and Slingers Cavalry: Mounted: On Horses Condescension of God: Expostulates with Backsliding Israel Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments The Bow: Those Who Used, Called: Bowmen War: Evils of