23. Concerning Damascus. "Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, For they have heard bad news; They are disheartened. There is anxiety by the sea, It cannot be calmed.
24. "Damascus has become helpless; She has turned away to flee, And panic has gripped her; Distress and pangs have taken hold of her Like a woman in childbirth.
25. "How the city of praise has not been deserted, The town of My joy!
26. "Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets, And all the men of war will be silenced in that day," declares the Lord of hosts.
27. "I will set fire to the wall of Damascus, And it will devour the fortified towers of Ben-hadad."
28. Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated. Thus says the Lord, "Arise, go up to Kedar And devastate the men of the east.
29. "They will take away their tents and their flocks; They will carry off for themselves Their tent curtains, all their goods and their camels, And they will call out to one another, 'Terror on every side!'
30. "Run away, flee! Dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor," declares the Lord; "For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has formed a plan against you And devised a scheme against you.
31. "Arise, go up against a nation which is at ease, Which lives securely," declares the Lord. "It has no gates or bars; They dwell alone.
32. "Their camels will become plunder, And their many cattle for booty, And I will scatter to all the winds those who cut the corners of their hair; And I will bring their disaster from every side," declares the Lord.
33. "Hazor will become a haunt of jackals, A desolation forever; No one will live there, Nor will a son of man reside in it."