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

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Footnotes

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