‘Has not Kalno(A) fared like Carchemish?(B)
Is not Hamath(C) like Arpad,(D)
    and Samaria(E) like Damascus?(F)
10 As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols,(G)
    kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
11 shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images
    as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?(H)’”

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11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?(A) 12 Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors(B) deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran,(C) Rezeph and the people of Eden(D) who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad?(E) Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim,(F) Hena and Ivvah?”(G)

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A Message About Damascus

23 Concerning Damascus:(A)

“Hamath(B) and Arpad(C) are dismayed,
    for they have heard bad news.
They are disheartened,
    troubled like[a] the restless sea.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:23 Hebrew on or by

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