Yermeyah (Jeremiah) 49:23–27 — Yahweh’s judgement for Damesek

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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.

23 Of_Dammeseq Ḩₐmāt and_ʼArpād it _will _be _ashamed if/because new[s] bad they _have _heard they _will _melt _away is_in_sea anxiety to _be _quiet not it _will _be _able.

24 Dammeseq it _will _be _disheartened it _will _turn _back to_flee and_panic it _will _take _hold distress and_labour-pains it_will _seize _it like _(the)_who]_gives _birth.

25 How not it _has _been _abandoned a _city _of praise _of[fn] the _town _of my _joy _of_my.

26 For_so/thus/hence men _of_its _young they _will _fall in_its _open _of_places and_all the _men _of (the)_war they _will _perish in _the_day (the)_that the _utterance _of YHWH soldiers/messengers.

27 And_I _will _kindle a _fire at_the _wall _of Dammeseq and_it _will _consume the _fortresses _of Ben.

49:25 OSHB variant note: תהלה: (x-qere) ’תְּהִלָּ֑ת’: lemma=8416 n=1 morph=HNcfsc id=249XL תְּהִלָּ֑ת

OET by section YIR (JER) 49:23

Yahweh’s judgement for Damesek

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