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Concerning Damascus: "Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, For they have heard bad news; They despair. There is anxiety at the sea, It cannot be calmed.

Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

"Damascus has become helpless; She has turned away to flee, And panic has gripped her; Distress and labor pains have seized her Like a woman in childbirth.

Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.

"How the city of praise has not been deserted, The town of My joy!

How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

"Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets, And all the men of war will perish on that day," declares the LORD of armies.

Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.

"I will set fire to the wall of Damascus, And it will devour the fortified palace of Ben-hadad."

And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.