They will be herded together into the Pit; they will be shut up in prison, and after many days they will be punished.

to open blind eyes and to bring out those who are bound from their cells, and those sitting in darkness from prison.

But this is a people who have been robbed and plundered, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become prey, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, "Send them back!'