“Says Yahweh.
‘I am now sending
For many fishermen.
They shall catch them.
Afterward I will send
For many hunters.
They shall hunt them
From every mountain.
They shall hunt them
From every hill.
They shall hunt them
Out of the clefts of the rocks.
My eyes are upon all their ways.
They are not hidden from my presence.
Their iniquity is not concealed
From my sight.
I will doubly repay their iniquity.
I will doubly repay their sin.
Because they have polluted my land
With the carcasses of their detestable idols.
They have filled my inheritance
With their abominations.”
Yahweh was going to send fishermen and hunters to gather up the Israelites. This is a reference to the Egyptians, probably the fishermen, and the Babylonians, the hunters. These hunters would hunt all over the place, from the mountains, hills, and rocks. No one could hide from them. Yahweh saw all of them. He was going to repay them in double for their sins and iniquities. They had polluted his land with their detestable idols. These abominations and false worship gods had ruined his inheritance.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 