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23 Concerning Damascus. "Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard evil tidings; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea which cannot be quiet.
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23 Concerning Damascus: "Hamath and Arpad are dismayed, for they have heard bad news. They are disheartened, troubled like the restless sea.
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24 Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
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24 Damascus has become feeble, she has turned to flee and panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her, pain like that of a woman in labor.
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25 How the famous city is forsaken, the joyful city!
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25 Why has the city of renown not been abandoned, the town in which I delight?
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26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day, says the LORD of hosts.
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26 Surely, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day," declares the LORD Almighty.
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27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-ha'dad."
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27 "I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad."
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