^{23 Ref} Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.

²⁴ Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

^{25 Ref} How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?

^{26 Ref} Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts.

^{27 Ref} I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.