Jeremiah 49:24-26

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁴ Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee,
    and panic seized her;
anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
    as of a woman in labor.
²⁵ How the famous city is forsaken,^[a]
    the joyful town!^[b]
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares,
    and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day,
says the Lord of hosts.