“And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.”
Then you will speak from the earth, and your words will whisper from the dust; and your voice will come like that of a spirit from the earth, and your words will chirp from the dust, establishing that Jerusalem, in its humiliation and subjugation, will become powerless and reduced to desperate pleading. The speaking from the earth and dust suggests the land of the dead or the condition of the utterly abased. The whispering and chirping imagery suggests weak and ineffectual speech, the voice of those who have been silenced and stripped of power. The oracle contrasts the current confidence and proud speech of Jerusalem's leadership with the helpless whimpering that judgment will produce. The reduction to whispers and chirps emphasizes the totality of subjugation.
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