OET-RV by section YIR 49:23

⌂ ← YIR 49:23–49:27 → ‴ ║ ═ ©

This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

Yahweh’s judgement for Damesek

49:23 Yahweh’s judgement for Damesek

23 Concerning Damesek (Damascus):

Hamat and Arpad will be ashamed, because they’ve heard bad news.

They’ll melt away—

they’ll become as troubled as an ocean that cannot stay calm.[ref]

24 Damesek will be disheartened.

It turns away to flee in panic.

Distress and pangs of pain seize it like a woman giving birth.

25 How has that widely praised city been abandoned—

the town that gave me happiness.

26 Therefore its young men will fall in its plazas,

and all the fighting men will perish on that day.

That is the declaration of Commander-in-chief Yahweh,

27 because I’ll light a fire on the wall around Damesek (Damascus),

and it will burn up Ben-Hadad’s fortresses.

49:23-27: Isa 17:1-3; Amos 1:3-5; Zech 9:1.