# 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/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# Judeans
people who returned from Babylon and settled in the land of Judah