23 ^aAgainst Damascus.
^b“Hamath and Arpad are shamed,
For they have heard bad news.
They are fainthearted;
^cThere is¹ trouble on the sea;
It cannot be quiet. ‡

24 Damascus has grown feeble;
She turns to flee,
And fear has seized her.
^aAnguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in¹ labor. ‡

26 ^aTherefore her young men shall fall in her streets,
And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the Lord of hosts. ‡

27 “I^a will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.”  ‡