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.
She turns to flee,
And fear has seized her.
aAnguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in1 labor.
25 Why is athe city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy?
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.
And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the Lord of hosts.
27 “Ia will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.”
And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.”
Judgment on Kedar and Hazor
28 aAgainst Kedar and against the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall strike. Thus says the Lord:
“Arise, go up to Kedar,
And devastate bthe men of the East!
“Arise, go up to Kedar,
And devastate bthe men of the East!
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