24. Damascus loses heart, turns to flee;panic has seized it.Distress and pangs take hold,like the pain of a woman in labor.
25. How can the glorious city be abandoned,the town of joy!
26. But now its young men shall fall in its squares,all the warriors destroyed on that day—oracle of the Lord of hosts.
27. I will set fire to the wall of Damascus;it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.