11 Leave thy [a]fatherless children, and I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me.

12 For thus saith the Lord, [b]Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup, have assuredly drunken, and art thou he that shall escape free? thou shalt not go free, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that [c]Bozrah shall be waste, and for a reproach, and a desolation, and a curse, and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual desolations.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:11 The destruction shall be so great, that there shall be none left to take care over the widows and the fatherless.
  2. Jeremiah 49:12 I have not spared mine own people, and how should I pity thee?
  3. Jeremiah 49:13 Which was a chief city of Edom.

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