Judgment on Damascus (JER 49:23-27)

[49:23] Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.

[49:24] Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in labor.

[49:25] How is the famous city not forsaken, the city of my joy?

[49:26] Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day,

[49:27] And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-Hadad.”