Jeremiah 4:29

The whole city the whole land. So LXX, supported by Targ. The word "city" was introduced by mistake from the latter part of the v.

bowmen Cp. Jeremiah 5:16. The Scythians were noted for skill in archery. See Herod. IV. 46.

they go … rocks The original words for "thickets" and "rocks" have been held to throw some doubt on the genuineness of the two clauses. The former is in Hebrew properly dark clouds, though the root in Aramaic would yield the sense "thickets." So "rocks" seems a "loanword" from Aramaic and occurs but once elsewhere (Job 30:6). For the first word LXX have a double rendering, cavesand woods. For the former sense they seem to have connected the word with an Arabic root, to conceal. Rocks, and the caves which they contained, were often used as places of refuge in the course of Jewish history. See ch. Jeremiah 16:16; also Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 13:6; cp. Isaiah 2:19; Isaiah 2:21.