Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
KJV
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because [they have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
ASV
Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.