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11 Leave your orphans. I’ll keep them alive.
    Let your widows trust in me.”

12 For this is what the Lord says: “Look, those who don’t deserve[a] to drink the cup will surely drink it, and will you actually go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished! You will certainly drink it![b] 13 Indeed, I’ve sworn by myself,” declares the Lord, “that Bozrah will become an object of horror and scorn, a waste, and an object of ridicule. All her towns will become perpetual ruins.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:12 Lit. it was not their judgment
  2. Jeremiah 49:12 The Heb. lacks it