“At the noise of horseman,
At the noise of archers,
Every town takes to flight.
They enter thickets.
They climb among rocks.
All the towns are forsaken.
No one lives in them.”
Jeremiah recounts the destruction of the towns in Judah. When the people heard that the archers and the cavalry were coming, they abandoned their towns to go live in the brush area or in the caves among the rocks. They knew that their town would be destroyed, so no one wanted to live in them anymore.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 