Jeremiah 49:23-27 ▼

23 Concerning Damascus [in Syria]. “Hamath and Arpad are perplexed and shamed, For they have heard bad news; They are disheartened; Troubled and anxious like a [storm-tossed] sea Which cannot be calmed.

24 “Damascus has become helpless; She has turned away to flee, Terror (panic) has seized her; Anguish and distress have gripped her Like a woman in childbirth.

25 “Why has the renowned city not been deserted, The city of My joy!

26 “Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets, And all her men of war will be destroyed in that day,” says the LORD of hosts.

27 “I will set fire to the wall of Damascus, And it will consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.”