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25 How the city of praise has not been abandoned!
    The city of my joy!
26 Therefore[a] her young men will fall in her public squares,
    and all the soldiers[b] will perish in that day,” declares[c] Yahweh of hosts.
27 “And I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus,
    and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Ben-hadad.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:26 Literally “To thus”
  2. Jeremiah 49:26 Literally “the men of the battle”
  3. Jeremiah 49:26 Literally “a declaration of”

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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