23Concerning Damascus, Hamath, and Arpad: shame! For they have heard bad news; they are melted away. Anxiety has gripped the sea; quiet cannot be found.24Damascus has let her hand grow slack. She has turned to flee, and trembling has seized her. Distress and birth pangs have seized her like a woman in labor.25How the city of my praise, my glory—Kiriath, my joy and exultation—is not abandoned!26Therefore her young men will fall in her squares, and all the men of war will be silenced on that day, says the LORD of hosts.27And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.