DAB October 26, 2026

To Damascus.

Hamath and Arpad will be humiliated.

Their courage melts because they have heard bad news.

There is anxiety like the sea that cannot be calmed.

Damascus will become weak.

She will turn to flee, but panic will seize her.

Distress and anguish will take hold of her, like that of a woman giving birth.

Why is the famous city, the joyful town, not abandoned? Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her soldiers will be silenced on that day, declares the Lord of the heavenly armies.

I'll kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the strongholds of Ben-Hadad.

to Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon destroyed.

This is what the Lord says.

Arise, go against Kedar, plunder the people of the east, take their tents and their flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods.

Take their camels away from them.

Cry out against them.

Terror is all around.

Flee.

Run away quickly.

Go to a remote place to stay, residents of Hazor, declares the Lord.

For King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has formed a plan and devised a strategy against them.

Arise, go up against a nation at ease, living securely, declares the Lord, without gates or bars, living alone.

Their camels will become booty, their many herds will become spoil.

I'll scatter to the winds those who shave the corners of their beards, and I'll bring disaster on them from every side, declares the Lord.

Hazor will become a dwelling place for jackals, a perpetual wasteland.

No one will live there.

No human being will reside in it.