English: “And among those nations you will not find rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot” — this teaches that even among the nations you will find no repose. “And Hashem will give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and languishing of soul” — three kinds of affliction: in the heart, in the eyes, and in the soul.
The absence of rest is paired with a triad of internal sufferings that define the quality of exile.
Type of Learning
Custom (phrase-by-phrase or midrashic expansion of the verse).
What Is Learned
The midrash extracts concrete legal, historical or theological referents from the wording of the passuk, giving the brief biblical language a fuller operational meaning.