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Jeremiah 49:25
How is the city of praise not forsaken,
from Judgment on Damascus, Jeremiah 49:23-27
What it says

A lament asks how the city of praise, the joyful town, could be forsaken.

What it is doing

This verse frames Damascus's fall as shocking and tragic.

In context

23Concerning Damascus: 24Damascus has become feeble; 25How is the city of praise not forsaken, 26For her young men will fall in the streets, 27“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus;