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!
29 They will take their tents and their flocksalong with their tent curtains and all their equipment.They will take their camels for themselves.They will call out to them:Terror is on every side!
30 Run! Escape quickly! Lie low,residents of Hazor —this is the Lord’s declaration —for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylonhas drawn up a plan against you;he has devised a strategy against you.
31 Rise up, go up against a nation at ease,one living in security.This is the Lord’s declaration.They have no doors, not even a gate bar;they live alone.