For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
Sling out - expressing the violence and suddenness of the removal to Babylon. A similar image occurs Jeremiah 16:13; (1 Samuel 25:29, Abigail says to David, "The souls of thine enemies, them shall He sling out, as out of the middle of a sling;" Isaiah 22:17-18).
At this once - at this time now.
Find it so - find it by experience, i:e., feel it (Ezekiel 6:10, "They shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have not said in vain, that I would do this evil unto them"). х Maatsaa' (H4672), to find]. Michaelis translates, 'I will bind them together (as in a sling), that they may reach the goal' (Babylon). The English version is best: that they may find it so as I have said (Numbers 23:19).