They will wander from sea to sea, And from the north even to the east; They will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, And will not find it.
"Shall wander from sea to sea ..." Some have tried to read this as a reference to the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean, thus confining its application to Palestine; but in  Zechariah 9:10 it is a clear reference meaning, "from one end of the earth to the other."  Harper, after citing the other view, admitted that, "Perhaps, the term is a more general one, meaning the ends of the earth."[36]  The ancient quotation from Jerome, cited by Butler, gives the true sense: