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Jeremiah 4:29

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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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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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מִקּ֨וֹלmi.Kolfrom [the] sound ofH6963 →
פָּרָ֜שׁpa.Rasha horsemanH6571 →
וְרֹ֣מֵהve.Ro.mehand a shooter ofH7411 →
קֶ֗שֶׁתKe.sheta bowH7198 →
בֹּרַ֙חַת֙bo.Ra.chat[is] fleeingH1272 →
כָּל־kol-everyH3605 →
הָעִ֔ירha.'Ir<the> cityH5892 →
בָּ֚אוּBa.'upeople will goH935 →
בֶּעָבִ֔יםbe.'a.Vimin the thicketsH5645 →
וּבַכֵּפִ֖יםu.va.ke.Fimand on the rocksH3710 →
עָל֑וּ'a.Lupeople will go upH5927 →
כָּל־kol-everyH3605 →
הָעִ֣ירha.'Ir<the> cityH5892 →
עֲזוּבָ֔ה'a.zu.Vah[is] abandonedH5800 →
וְאֵין־ve.'ein-and there notH369 →
יוֹשֵׁ֥בyo.Shev[is] dwellingH3427 →
בָּהֵ֖ןba.Henin <the> them
אִֽישׁ׃'IshanyoneH376 →

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Isaiah 6:12until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.Isaiah 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.Jeremiah 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.Jeremiah 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.Amos 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.1 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.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,Luke 23:30At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’2 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 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.Isaiah 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.Revelation 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.Jeremiah 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.Jeremiah 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.”Micah 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.

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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