Jeremiah 49:25
How is the city of praise not forsaken,
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;