Ecclesiasticus 7:24

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Cum sagittis et arcu ingredientur illuc : vepres enim et spinæ erunt in universa terra.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Cum sagittis et arcu ingredientur illuc:
vepres enim et spinæ erunt in universa terra.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Cum sagittis et arcu ingredientur illuc, vepres enim et spinae erit universa terra.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 27:3

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 12:20 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

With arrows and with bows shall [men] come thither,.... For fear of wild beasts, serpents, and scorpions, as Jarchi; or in order to hunt them, as others; or because of thieves and robbers, as Aben Ezra:

because all the land shall become briers and thorns; among which such creatures, and such sort of men, would hide themselves.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With arrows and with bows ... - This is a continuation of the description of its desolation. So entirely would it be abandoned, so utterly desolate would it be, that it would become a vast hunting-ground. It would be covered with shrubs and trees that would afford a convenient covert for wild beasts; and would yield to its few inhabitants a subsistence, not by cultivation, but by the bow and the arrow. There can scarcely be a more striking description of utter desolation. But, perhaps, the long captivity of seventy years in Babylon literally fulfilled it. Judea was a land that, at all times, was subject to depredations from wild beasts. On the banks of the Jordan - in the marshes, and amid the reeds that sprung up in the lower bank or border of the river - the lion found a home, and the tiger a resting place; compare Jeremiah 49:19. When the land was for a little time vacated and forsaken, it would be, therefore, soon filled with wild beasts; and during the desolations of the seventy years’ captivity, there can be no doubt that this was literally fulfilled.