But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
The burden of the king of the princes ..."  This does not appear to be the burden imposed upon the people by the king and his company, but the burden which their whole godless system was to God, a burden that God would not bear indefinitely, but would remove utterly with the impending diminishing of the people.