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25 “Damascus is a happy city.
    The people have not left that ‘fun city’ yet.
26 So the young men will die in the public squares of that city.
    All her soldiers will be killed at that time.”
    This is what the Lord All-Powerful said.
27 “I will set the walls of Damascus on fire.
    The fire will completely burn up the strong forts of Ben-Hadad.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:27 Ben-Hadad This was the name of several of the kings of Aram-Damascus.

25 Why has the city of renown not been abandoned,
    the town in which I delight?
26 Surely, her young men(A) will fall in the streets;
    all her soldiers will be silenced(B) in that day,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
27 “I will set fire(C) to the walls of Damascus;(D)
    it will consume(E) the fortresses of Ben-Hadad.(F)

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