With bow and arrows men will go there, for all the land will be briars and thorns—the land becomes so overgrown that hunting becomes the primary activity; agriculture is impossible. The return to hunter-gatherer mode of subsistence suggests complete regression from civilization; what had been built up through generations reverts to wilderness. The emphasis on briars and thorns establishes this not as natural wilderness but as cursed desolation. This verse emphasizes the totality of judgment; not merely population and livestock loss but the very capacity of the land to support civilization is destroyed.

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