en_tn_condensed/jer/46/16.md

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)