Isaiah imagines himself among the exiles in Babylon and cannot help feeling moved by the calamities which come on it. So for Moab (Isa 15:5; Isa 16:11).
pain - (Compare Isa 13:8; Eze 30:4, Eze 30:19; Nah 2:10).
at the hearing - The Hebrew may mean, “I was so bowed down that I could not hear; I was so dismayed that I could not see” (Gen 16:2; Psa 69:23) [Maurer].