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12 For thus says Yahweh, “Look, those who are not condemned[a] to drink the cup must certainly drink it.[b] And are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink it.[c] 13 For I have sworn by myself,” declares[d] Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be everlasting sites of ruins.”[e]

14 I have heard a message from Yahweh,
    and a messenger has been sent among the nations.
“Gather and come against her,
    and rise for the battle.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:12 Literally “who there is not their justice”
  2. Jeremiah 49:12 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Jeremiah 49:12 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Jeremiah 49:13 Literally “a declaration of”
  5. Jeremiah 49:13 Literally “sites of ruins of eternity”