24. Damascus is waxed feeble and turns herself to flee, and fear has seized on her; anguish and sorrows have taken her as a woman in travail.
25. How did they not forgive the city of praise, the city of my joy!
26. Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, said the Lord of the hosts.
27. And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the houses of Benhadad.
28. Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote, thus hath the Lord said; Arise ye, go up to Kedar and destroy the men of the east.
29. Their tents and their flocks shall they take away; they shall take to themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels; and they shall invoke fear on every side against them.
30. Flee, get you far off, dwell in the deeps that ye may stand, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, said the Lord; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you and has conceived a purpose against you.
31. Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation that dwells without care, saith the Lord, which has neither gates nor bars, which dwells alone.