and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.”

And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,

and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day,

Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares,

the city of my joy?

How is the famous city not forsaken,

as of a woman in labor.

anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,

and panic seized her;

Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee,

they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.

they melt in fear,

for they have heard bad news;

“Hamath and Arpad are confounded,

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