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Concerning Damascus:
"Hamath and Arpad are dismayed,
for they have heard bad news.
They are disheartened,
troubled like 1 the restless sea.
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Damascus has become feeble,
she has turned to flee
and panic has gripped her;
anguish and pain have seized her,
pain like that of a woman in labor.
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Why has the city of renown not been abandoned,
the town in which I delight?
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Surely, her young men will fall in the streets;
all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,"
declares the Lord Almighty.
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"I will set fire to the walls of Damascus;
it will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad."