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11 Leave your orphans. I will let them[a] live.
    And your widows, let them trust in me.”

12 For thus says Yahweh, “Look, those who are not condemned[b] to drink the cup must certainly drink it.[c] And are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink it.[d] 13 For I have sworn by myself,” declares[e] 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.”[f]

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  1. Jeremiah 49:11 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Jeremiah 49:12 Literally “who there is not their justice”
  3. Jeremiah 49:12 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Jeremiah 49:12 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  5. Jeremiah 49:13 Literally “a declaration of”
  6. Jeremiah 49:13 Literally “sites of ruins of eternity”

11 ‘Leave your fatherless children;(A) I will keep them alive.
    Your widows(B) too can depend on me.’”

12 This is what the Lord says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup(C) must drink it, why should you go unpunished?(D) You will not go unpunished, but must drink it. 13 I swear(E) by myself,” declares the Lord, “that Bozrah(F) will become a ruin and a curse,[a] an object of horror(G) and reproach;(H) and all its towns will be in ruins forever.”(I)

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  1. Jeremiah 49:13 That is, its name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that it is cursed.