22 Look! It will be like an eagle soaring upward, then swooping down and spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.
23 About Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report and are agitated;in the sea there is anxiety that cannot be calmed.
24 Damascus has become weak;she has turned to run;panic has gripped her.Distress and labor pains have seized herlike a woman in labor.
25 How can the city of praise not be abandoned, the town that brings Me joy?
26 Therefore, her young men will fall in her public squares;all the warriors will perish in that day.This is the declaration ofthe Lord of Hosts.
27 I will set fire to the wall of Damascus;it will consume Ben-hadad’s citadels.
28 About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon’s king, defeated, this is what the Lord says:Rise up, go against Kedar,and destroy the people of the east!