Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 47:3

"At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands;" — Jeremiah 47:3 (ASV)

The fathers shall not look back to their children. —The selfishness of panic was to reach its highest point, and to crush out the instincts of natural affection. Even fathers would be content to save themselves, regardless of their children’s lives.