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Jeremiah 49:23-27 (Listen)

• Jeremiah 48
• Jeremiah 49
• Jeremiah 50

Judgment on Damascus

23 Concerning zDamascus:

a“Hamath and bArpad are confounded,

for they have heard bad news;

they melt in fear,

cthey are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.

24 zDamascus has become feeble, dshe turned to flee,

and panic seized her;

anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,

as yof a woman in labor.

25 How is ethe famous city not forsaken,

the city of my joy?

26 fTherefore her young men shall fall in her squares,

and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day,

declares the Lord of hosts.

27 And gI will kindle a fire in the wall of zDamascus,

and it shall devour the strongholds of hBen-hadad.”