8
When the king heard this news, he was stunned and badly shaken. He took to his bed, sick from grief. Things hadn't turned out for him as he had planned.
9
He lay there for many days because he was deeply depressed. He realized that he was dying.
10
He called his closest political advisors and said to them, "Sleep has left my eyes. I'm depressed from worrying.
11
I say to myself, What distress I've come to! What a great flood I've now been plunged into! Once I was kind and was loved in my power.
12
But now I recall the wrongs I did in Jerusalem. I seized all its silver and gold equipment. I ordered the destruction of the inhabitants of Judah without good reason.