“Therefore,
Great wrath
Came from Yahweh of hosts.
‘Just as when I called,
They would not hear,
So,
When they called,
I would not hear.’
Says Yahweh of hosts.
‘I scattered them
With a whirlwind
Among all the nations
That they had not known.
Thus,
The land they left
Was desolate.
Thus,
No one went to and fro.
A pleasant land
Was made desolate.’”
Thus, Yahweh sent punishments to these stubborn Israelites. Great wrath and anger came from Yahweh of hosts. Since they would not listen to Yahweh, he was not going to listen to them. He decided to scatter them to the winds among the various other countries. Many of these countries, they knew nothing about them. Thus, the great land of Israel was left desolate. No one was moving about in this pleasant land that became a desolation.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 