That you may be bound up - Others put a stop after “cause,” and translate, For binding your wound, you have no healing plaster.

There is none to plead thy cause... — These words bring before us two images of extreme misery: the criminal who, standin…

For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous. There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you …

The Prophet speaks first plainly, then he illustrates the simple truth with a metaphor. He says that there was no one to undertake the cause