The nation is fatally wounded. Judah is doomed. Jerusalem will fall.
The city will mourn and sit in the dust, emptied of its people.
Hezekiah had been king of Judah for fourteen years when King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded the country and captured every walled city
except Jerusalem. The Assyrian king ordered his army commander to leave the city of Lachish and to take a large army to Jerusalem. The commander went there and stood on the road near the cloth makers' shops along the canal from the upper pool.
I am badly injured and in constant pain. Are you going to disappoint me, like a stream that goes dry in the heat of summer?
Egypt, no medicine can heal you, not even the soothing lotion from Gilead.
Everyone in Maroth hoped for the best, but the LORD sent disaster down on Jerusalem.
Because of your sins, I will wound you and leave you ruined and defenceless.
You're fatally wounded. There's no hope for you. But everyone claps when they hear this news, because your constant cruelty has caused them pain.