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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/jit/figs-metaphor)

Judeans

people who returned from Babylon and settled in the land of Judah