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24 Damascus has become limp in their hands;
She has turned away to flee,
And panic has taken hold of her;
(A)Distress and pangs have seized her
Like a woman in childbirth.
25 How [a]the (B)city of praise has not been forsaken,
The town of My joy!
26 Therefore, her (C)young men will fall in her open squares,
And all the men of war will be [b]silenced in that day,” declares Yahweh of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:25 Or deserted is the city of praise
  2. Jeremiah 49:26 Or destroyed