A Message Concerning Damascus

• 23 Concerning Damascus:“Hamath and Arpad are ashamed,
  • for they have heard bad news;
  • they melt.
• There is concern in the sea.
  • It is not able to keep quiet.
  • 24  She has turned away to flee and panic.
• Anxiety has seized her,
  • and labor pains have grasped her,
  • like a woman in labor.
  • 25 the city of praise has not been abandoned! The city of my joy!
  • 26 [fn] her young men will fall in her public squares, and all[fn] will perish in that day,” [fn] Yahweh of hosts.
  • 27  and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Ben-hadad.”