Jérémie 4:29

Darby's French Translation

Devant le bruit des cavaliers et des tireurs d'arc toute ville fuit: ils entrent dans les fourrés et montent sur les rochers; toute ville est abandonnée, et aucun homme n'y habite.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Toute ville s'enfuit � cause du bruit des gens de cheval, et de ceux qui tirent de l'arc; ils sont entr�s dans les bois �pais, et sont mont�s sur les rochers; toute ville est abandonn�e et personne n'y habite.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Au bruit des cavaliers et des tireurs d'arc toutes les villes prennent la fuite; ils entrent dans les bois, montent sur les rochers; toutes les villes sont abandonn�es, il n'y reste plus d'habitants.

Louis Segond (1910)
Au bruit des cavaliers et des archers, toutes les villes sont en fuite; On entre dans les bois, on monte sur les rochers; Toutes les villes sont abandonn�es, il n'y a plus d'habitants.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall flee: Jeremiah 39:4-6, Jeremiah 52:7, 2 Kings 25:4-7, Isaiah 30:17, Amos 9:1

they shall go: 1 Samuel 13:6, 2 Chronicles 33:11, Isaiah 2:19-21, Luke 23:30, Revelation 6:15-17

every: Jeremiah 4:27

Reciprocal: Isaiah 6:12 - a great Jeremiah 6:1 - gather Micah 1:13 - bind

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The whole city shall flee,.... Or, "every city"; for not Jerusalem only is meant, but every city, or the inhabitants of every city; and so the Targum paraphrases it,

"all the inhabitants of the land,''

who would be put into a panic, and flee: "for" or

at the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; of which the army of the enemy would greatly consist: it intimates that the inhabitants of Judea would not stand a battle; but at hearing the sound of the trampling of the horses, and the clattering of the bows and arrows, that the men upon them had, they would flee at once:

they shall go into the thickets, and climb upon the rocks; that is, either the horsemen and bowmen, who would pursue the inhabitants into those places: or rather the inhabitants themselves, who would flee thither to hide themselves from their enemies; namely, get into woods and forests, and among the thick trees, and cover themselves; and upon the highest mountains and rocks, and into the holes and caverns of them, and secure themselves from the enemy; see Matthew 24:16, the word for "thickets" signifies "clouds" i; and Kimchi interprets it of places as high as the clouds, as the tops of some mountains are, so that going up to them is like entering into the clouds; and which are sometimes covered with thick trees, and look like clouds; but the Targum explains it of woods or forests:

every city shall be forsaken; of its inhabitants:

and not a man dwell therein; as the prophet had seen in his vision, Jeremiah 4:25, this was to be when a full end was made, not by the Babylonians, but by the Romans.

i בעבים "in nubes", Munster, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Jeremiah 4:13 and bowmen formed the chief strength of the Assyrian armies.

They shall go - They have gone.