24. Damascus has grown slack. She has turned away to flee and panic. Anxiety has seized her, and labor pains have grasped her, like a woman in labor.
25. How the city of praise has not been abandoned! The city of my joy!
26. Therefore her young men will fall in her public squares, and all the soldiers will perish in that day,” declares Yahweh of hosts.
27. “And I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Ben-hadad.”
28. Concerning Kedar and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon defeated. Thus says Yahweh: “Rise up, go up against Kedar and destroy the people of the east.
29. They will take their tents, and their flocks, their tent curtains, and all their equipment, and their camels they will carry away for themselves, and they will call to them, ‘Terror is from all around.’
30. Flee! Wander far away! Get down low! O inhabitants of Hazor,” declares Yahweh. “For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has planned a plan against you. And he has schemed a scheme against you.
31. Rise up, go up against a nation which is at ease, living securely,” declares Yahweh. “There are no gates and there are no bars for them, they dwell alone.
32. And their camels will become as plunder, and the multitude of their livestock as spoil. And I will scatter to every wind those who are trimmed to the side, and from every side I will bring their disaster,” declares Yahweh.
33. “And Hazor will become as a lair of jackals, a waste forever; no one will live there, and no son of humankind will dwell as an alien in it.”
34. The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the king of Judah, saying,
35. “Thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘Look, I am going to break the bow of Elam, the first and best of their might.
36. And I will bring to Elam four winds, from the four corners of heaven, and I will scatter them to all these winds, and there will not be a nation where the scattered people of Elam will not go.
37. So I will shatter Elam before their enemies, and before the seekers of their life. And I will bring disaster upon them, my burning anger,’ declares Yahweh. ‘And I will send after them the sword until I have destroyed them.
38. And I will set my throne in Elam and I will destroy from there king and officials,’ declares Yahweh.
39. ‘And then in the last of the days I will restore the fortunes of Elam,’ declares Yahweh.”