24 Damascus is discouraged, and turneth herself to flight, [a]and fear hath seized her: anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in travail.

25 How is the glorious [b]city not reserved, the city of my joy?

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

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:24 When she heard the sudden coming of the enemy.
  2. Jeremiah 49:25 He speaketh this in the person of the king and of them of the country, who shall wonder to see Damascus the chief city destroyed.

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