For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

The breaker has gone up before them. They have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and have gone out there. And their king has passed on before them, and LORD at the head of them.

For her wounds are incurable. For it has come even to Judah. it reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.