23. This message is about the city of Damascus:“The towns of Hamath and Arpad are put to shame.They are afraid because they have heard bad news.They are discouraged.They are troubled like the tossing sea.
24. The city of Damascus has become weak.The people want to run away.The people are ready to panic.The people feel pain and sufferinglike a woman having a baby.
25. Damascus was a city of my joy.Why have the people not left that famous city yet?
26. Surely the young men will die in the public squares of that city.All of her soldiers will be killed at that time,” says the Lord of heaven’s armies.