⁷ But now your brave warriors weep in public.
    Your ambassadors of peace cry in bitter disappointment.
⁸ Your roads are deserted;
    no one travels them anymore.
The Assyrians have broken their peace treaty
    and care nothing for the promises they made before witnesses.^[a]
    They have no respect for anyone.
⁹ The land of Israel wilts in mourning.
    Lebanon withers with shame.
The plain of Sharon is now a wilderness.
    Bashan and Carmel have been plundered.