Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people. Since the old generation was doomed to die in the wilderness, so their posterity should die dispersed in foreign exile (cf. Leviticus 26:33-38). The remembrance of this prophetic denunciation must have sadly embittered the feelings of the Jews both during the captivity in Babylon and in the dispersion since the fall of Jerusalem.