The prophet here shows how deeply he is affected with the people’s misery, he deeply sympathized with them.
The hurt; it signifies breach, I am broken in my spirit; and so it answers to the breach that is made upon the people.
I am black; I am as those that are clad in deep mourning, Psa_38:6Jer_14:2.
Astonishment hath taken hold on me; I am amazed to think that my people should sin themselves beyond help, no remedy for them, as the next verse, that no threatenings or counsels should prevail with them.