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Jeremiah 49:24

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

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Jeremiah 49:24 in other translations

Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee, and trembling hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 49:24 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 49:24 in context

  1. 22Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle,
    and spread out his wings against Bozrah.
    The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
  2. 23Of Damascus:
    “Hamath is confounded, and Arpad;
    for they have heard evil news.
    They have melted away.
    There is sorrow on the sea.
    It can’t be quiet.
  3. 24Damascus has grown feeble,
    she turns herself to flee,
    and trembling has seized her.
    Anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
    as of a woman in travail.
  4. 25How is the city of praise not forsaken,
    the city of my joy?
  5. 26Therefore her young men will fall in her streets,
    and all the men of war will be brought to silence in that day,”
    says Yahweh of Armies.