# He increases the numbers of those who stumble

"Yahweh causes more and more of your soldiers to stumble"

# the land of our birth

"the land where we were born"

# away from the sword of the oppressor

Here "sword" represents the enemy soldiers who are carrying weapons. Alternate translation: "away from the soldiers that are oppressing us" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])