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Damascus has become feeble, she is turned to flight, fear has taken her in its grip: pain and sorrows have come on her, as on a woman in birth-pains.
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How has the town of praise been wasted, the place of joy!
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So her young men will be falling in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord of armies.
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And I will have a fire lighted on the wall of Damascus, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad.
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About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame. This is what the Lord has said: Up! go against Kedar, and make an attack on the children of the east.
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Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.
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Go in flight, go wandering far off, take cover in deep places, O people of Hazor, says the Lord; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a design against you, he has a purpose against you in mind.
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Up! go against a nation which is living in comfort and without fear of danger, says the Lord, without doors or locks, living by themselves.
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And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, says the Lord.
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And Hazor will be a hole for jackals, a waste for ever: no one will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.
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The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, saying,