“How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!”
Jeremiah 49:25 (KJV) |
Jeremiah 49:25
From Jeremiah 49, in the Book of Jeremiah (Old Testament).
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Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
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Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
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How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
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Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
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And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.