From the lowest to the highest of the people; “the ancient and honorable, the head, the prophet that teacheth lies, the tail.” See Isa 9:13-16. He first states their wretched condition, obvious to all (Isa 1:6-9); and then, not previously, their irreligious state, the cause of it.
wounds - judicially inflicted (Hos 5:13).
mollified with ointment - The art of medicine in the East consists chiefly in external applications (Luk 10:34; Jam 5:14).