25. How could they have abandoned the praiseworthy city, the city of rejoicing?
26. For this reason, her young men will fall in her streets. And all the men of battle will be silenced in that day, says the Lord of hosts.
27. And I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the defensive walls of Ben-hadad."
28. Against Kedar and against the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has struck down. Thus says the Lord: "Rise up and ascend to Kedar, and lay waste to the sons of the East.
29. They will seize their tabernacles and their flocks. And they will take for themselves their tents, and all their vessels, and their camels. And they will call down a terror upon them on every side.
30. Flee, go away urgently! Sit in deep pits, you who inhabit Hazor, says the Lord. For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has undertaken a counsel against you, and he has devised plans against you.