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its

Yahweh continues speaking about what will happen to Damascus and its people.

its young men will fall in its plazas

"enemies will kill the young men of Damascus in its plazas"

this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts

"this is what I, Yahweh of hosts, have declared". Yahweh speaks of himself to express the certainty of what he is declaring. See Jeremiah 1:8.