Jer 49:23-27, Amo 1:3-5, Zec 9:1 | ESV | STEP | Concerning Damascus : Hamath and Arpad are confounded , for they have heard bad news ; they melt in fear , they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet .

23 Concerning ^aDamascus:

^b“Hamath and ^cArpad are confounded,
for they have heard bad news;
they melt in fear,
^dthey are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.
24 ^eDamascus has become feeble, ^fshe turned to flee,
and panic seized her;
anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her,
as ^gof a woman in labor.
25 How is ^hthe famous city not forsaken,
the city of my joy?
26 ⁱTherefore her young men shall fall in her squares,
and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day,

declares the Lord of hosts.
27 And ^jI will kindle a fire in the wall of ^kDamascus,
and it shall devour the strongholds of ^lBen-hadad.”

Amos 1:3-5

3 Thus says the Lord:

^m“For three transgressions of ⁿDamascus,
and for four, ^oI will not revoke the punishment, ^{▼▼Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 6, 9, 11, 13}
because they have threshed ^qGilead
with threshing sledges of iron.
4 ^rSo I will send a fire upon the house of ^sHazael,
and it shall devour the strongholds of ^tBen-hadad.
5 I will ^ubreak the gate-bar of ^vDamascus,
and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of ^wAven, ^{▼▼Or On}
and him who holds the scepter from ^yBeth-eden;
and the people of ^zSyria shall go into exile to ^aaKir,”

says the Lord.

Zechariah 9:1

Judgment on Israel’s Enemies

1 The oracle of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach
and ^abDamascus is its resting place.
For the Lord has an eye on mankind
and on all the tribes of Israel, ^{▼▼Or For the eye of mankind, especially of all the tribes of Israel, is toward the Lord}