Jeremiah 14:18

Them that are sick with famine. — Literally, with even a more awful force, as summing all individual sufferings in one collective unity, the sickness of famine — the pestilence that follows on starvation.

Go about into a land that they know not. — Literally, go about (as in Genesis 34:10, where the Authorised version has “trade”) in a land and know not, i.e., whither they go — are in a land of exile, and know not where to find a home, or where they may be dragged next, or, perhaps, with some commentators. learn no wisdom from their bitter experience. There is no adequate ground for the rendering in the margin, which, besides, gives no satisfactory meaning.