‘Stay away! Unclean! ’ people shouted at them. ‘Away, away! Don’t touch us! ’ So they wandered aimlessly. It was said among the nations, ‘They can stay here no longer.’
Look, I am about to bring terror on you – this is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies – from all those around you. You will be banished, each person headlong, with no one to gather up the fugitives.
Judah has gone into exile following affliction and harsh slavery; she lives among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in narrow places.