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the people of the land
"the people who were living in the land at that time," which could include non-Jews and Jews whose families the Babylonians had not taken into exile
made the Judeans' hands weak
This speaks of the people of the land discouraging the Judeans as if they made their hands physically weak. Alternate translation: "discouraged the Judeans" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
Judeans
people who returned from Babylon and settled in the land of Judah