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10 But I’ll strip Esau bare.
    I’ll uncover his hiding places so he cannot conceal himself.
His offspring, his relatives,
    and his neighbors will be destroyed,
        and he will no longer exist.
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]

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Footnotes

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

10 But I will strip Esau bare;
    I will uncover his hiding places,(A)
    so that he cannot conceal himself.
His armed men are destroyed,
    also his allies and neighbors,
    so there is no one(B) to say,
11 ‘Leave your fatherless children;(C) I will keep them alive.
    Your widows(D) too can depend on me.’”

12 This is what the Lord says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup(E) must drink it, why should you go unpunished?(F) You will not go unpunished, but must drink it.

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