Albert Barnes Commentary Isaiah 7:24

"With arrows and with bow shall one come thither, because all the land shall be briers and thorns." — Isaiah 7:24 (ASV)

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 sprang up in the lower bank or border of the river—the lion found a home and the tiger a resting place . When the land was for a little time vacated and forsaken, it would, therefore, soon be filled with wild beasts; and during the desolations of the seventy years’ captivity, there can be no doubt that this was literally fulfilled.