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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
# weakened the hands of the people of Judah
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/jit/figs-metaphor]])