For her wounds [are] incurable, because it has come to Judah. It has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

For the inhabitants of Maroth writhed for good, because disaster has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.

Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.

And I also {have made you sick by striking you down}, making [you] desolate because of your sins.

But the earth will be a desolation because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds.

The nations will see and be ashamed because of all their might. They will lay [the] hand on [the] mouth; their ears will be deaf.