Word Against Damascus
23 Concerning aDamascus.
“bHamath and cArpad are put to shame,
For they have heard a bad report;
They are dmelting away.
There is anxiety by the sea,
It ecannot be quieted.
24 Damascus has become limp in their hands;
She has turned away to flee,
And panic has taken hold of her;
aDistress and pangs have seized her
Like a woman in childbirth.
25 How the acity of praise has not been forsaken,
The town of My joy!
26 Therefore, her ayoung men will fall in her open squares,
And all the men of war will be silenced in that day,” declares Yahweh of hosts.
27 “I will aset fire to the wall of Damascus,
And it will devour the fortified towers of bBen‑hadad.”