Jeremías 4:29

29 Al ruido de jinetes y arqueros huye toda la ciudad; entran en las espesuras y trepan por los peñascos. Toda ciudad está abandonada, y no queda en ellas morador alguno.

Jeremías 4:29 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 4:29

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" ^F9; 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (Mybeb) "in nubes", Munster, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schmidt.

Jeremías 4:29 In-Context

27 Porque así dice el SEÑOR: Una desolación será toda la tierra, pero no causaré una destrucción total.

28 Por eso se enlutará la tierra, y se oscurecerán los cielos arriba, porque he hablado, lo he decidido, y no me arrepentiré, ni me retractaré de ello.

29 Al ruido de jinetes y arqueros huye toda la ciudad; entran en las espesuras y trepan por los peñascos. Toda ciudad está abandonada, y no queda en ellas morador alguno.

30 Y tú, desolada, ¿qué harás? Aunque te vistas de escarlata, aunque te pongas adornos de oro, aunque te agrandes con pintura los ojos, en vano te embelleces; te desprecian tus amantes, sólo buscan tu vida.

31 Porque oí un grito como de mujer de parto, angustia como de primeriza; era el grito de la hija de Sion que se ahogaba, y extendía sus manos, diciendo: ¡Ay ahora de mí, porque desfallezco ante los asesinos!