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Jeremiah 4:29

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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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Every city fleeth for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.

KJV

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.

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This verse in Jeremiah 4

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

(Verse 29.) At the sound of the horseman, and of him who sends forth the arrow (or bends the bow), every city (or region) flees. They have entered the heights and climbed the rocks. And what follows: They have entered the thickets, or caves, which the Seventy have added. But the divine word describes the raging army of Babylon, how at its trembling the entire people have abandoned the city, and have climbed the heights; and yet they could not escape the wrath of the Lord.

This site's exposition

climb up upon the rocks

on Jeremiah 4:29-31

Flight empties the cities into thicket and rock, and the chapter closes on a figure the book will use again, the daughter of Zion pictured as a woman in her first labor, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands. The painted face and crimson clothing of verse 30 are Jerusalem dressed for lovers who will turn on her, they will seek thy life, beauty and ornament unable to buy back a covenant broken at its own root.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The whole city ... - Rather, Every city is fleeing. All the inhabitants of the tokens flee to Jerusalem for protection, or seek refuge in the woods and rocks. The horsemen and bowmen - The cavalry Jer 4:13 and bowmen formed the chief strength of the Assyrian armies. They shall go - They have gone.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • מִקּ֨וֹלfrom [the] sound of

    mikolH6963 →506 times

  • פָּרָ֜שׁa horseman

    parashH6571 →

  • וְרֹ֣מֵהand a shooter of

    veromehH7411 →

  • קֶ֗שֶׁתa bow

    keshetH7198 →76 times

  • בֹּרַ֙חַת֙[is] fleeing

    borachatH1272 →63 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעִ֔יר<the> city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • בָּ֚אוּpeople will go

    bauH935 →2568 times

  • בֶּעָבִ֔יםin the thickets

    beavimH5645 →

  • וּבַכֵּפִ֖יםand on the rocks

    uvakefimH3710 →

  • עָל֑וּpeople will go up

    ʾaluH5927 →890 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעִ֣יר<the> city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • עֲזוּבָ֔ה[is] abandoned

    ʾazuvahH5800 →215 times

  • וְאֵין־and there not

    veein-H369 →789 times

  • יוֹשֵׁ֥ב[is] dwelling

    yoshevH3427 →1079 times

  • בָּהֵ֖ןin <the> them

    bahen

  • אִֽישׁ׃anyone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

15 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Isaiah 6:12until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.5 worksIsaiah 2:19–21Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.3 worksJeremiah 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.3 worksJeremiah 39:4–6When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.2 worksAmos 9:1I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.2 works1 Samuel 13:6Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.2 works
The other 9 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 52:7Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,2 worksLuke 23:30At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’2 works2 Kings 25:4–7Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,2 works2 Chronicles 33:11So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.2 worksIsaiah 30:17A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.2 worksRevelation 6:15–17Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.2 worksJeremiah 6:1“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.2 worksJeremiah 6:23They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”2 worksMicah 1:13Harness your chariot horses, O dweller of Lachish. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 4:7

    A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 2:15

      The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.

    • Ezekiel 26:7–10

      For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company…

    • Jeremiah 5:6

      Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be…

    • Isaiah 6:11

      Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

    • Isaiah 1:7

      Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

  • Through

    Amos 9:1

    I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 68:21

      Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.

    • Isaiah 6:3–4

      And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.”

  • Through

    1 Samuel 13:6

    Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.

    it leads to

    • Judges 6:2

      and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.

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About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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