Behold: that the mercy here promised might be duly magnified, he makes a lively representation of their great danger and distress, in which it found them. Their valiant ones; or, their heralds or messengers, as the Hebrew doctors expound the word: either,
1. Those whom the king of Assyria sent to Jerusalem, 2 Kings 18:17. Or rather,
2. Those whom Hezekiah sent to treat with the Assyrian commissioners, 2 Kings 18:18, as the next clause showeth. Shall cry without, through grief and fear. The ambassadors of peace, whom he shall send to beg peace of the Assyrian, shall weep bitterly, because they cannot obtain their desires.