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.