In the prophecies of Zechariah we have a similar threatening against Damascus. Zechariah 9:1-8. The Lord is visiting his enemies, and the enemies of his Church, and therefore the day is awful.
Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 49:24
Jeremiah 49:24-27
24 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.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 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.
27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.