“Hamath is confounded, and Arpad;
    for they have heard evil news.
    They have melted away.
There is sorrow on the sea.
    It can’t be quiet.
²⁴ Damascus has grown feeble,
    she turns herself to flee,
    and trembling has seized her.
Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
    as of a woman in travail.
²⁵ How is the city of praise not forsaken,
    the city of my joy?
²⁶ Therefore her young men will fall in her streets,
    and all the men of war will be brought to silence in that day,”
    says Yahweh of Armies.
²⁷ “I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
    and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.”