23Concerning aDamascus.“bHamath and cArpad are puttoshame,For they have heard a badreport;They are dmelting away.There is anxiety by the sea,It ecannot be quieted.24“Damascus has becomelimpin their hands;She has turnedaway to flee,And panic has takenhold of her;aDistress and pangs have seized herLike a woman inchildbirth.25“How1the acity of praise has not been forsaken,The town of My joy!26“Therefore, her ayoungmen will fall in her opensquares,And all the men of war will be 1silenced in that day,” declaresYahweh of hosts.27“I will asetfire to the wall of Damascus,And it will devour the 1fortifiedtowers of bBen-hadad.”
