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Couriers arrive at an anxious Damascus market beneath distant smoke.
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Jeremiah 49:23-27

News reaches Damascus

Oracles Across the Nations · Jeremiah 49

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23Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard bad news; they melt away. There is anxiety like the sea; it cannot be quiet.

24Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee, and trembling has seized her. Distress and labor pains have taken hold of her, like a woman giving birth.

25How is the city of praise not abandoned, the city of my joy?

26Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all the men of war will be silenced on that day, declares Yahweh of Armies.

27And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.

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