Jeremiah 49:24-26

New Century Version

²⁴ The city of Damascus has become weak.
    The people want to run away;
    they are ready to panic.
The people feel pain and suffering,
    like a woman giving birth to a baby.
²⁵ Damascus was a city of my joy.
    Why have the people not left that famous city yet?
²⁶ Surely the young men will die in the city squares,
    and all her soldiers will be killed at that time,” says the Lord All-Powerful.