With arrows and bows men will come there, Because all the land will become briers and thorns.
Parallel translations
- WEB People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
- KJV With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
- BSB Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
- NASB People will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be briars and thorns.
- NLT The entire land will become a vast expanse of briers and thorns, a hunting ground overrun by wildlife.
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The cultivated land will become so wild that people enter it only as hunters in untamed brush.
Overview
Where farmers once worked, only hunters with bow and arrow will go, because the whole land is overgrown with briers and thorns. The image marks the collapse of settled agriculture into wilderness. It reinforces the thoroughness of the desolation coming upon Judah.
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- Gen 27:3Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
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