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11 Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive;
    your widows, let them trust in me.(A)

12 For thus says the Lord: Look, even those not sentenced to drink the cup must drink it! Shall you then go unpunished? You shall not! You shall drink every bit of it!(B) 13 By myself I have sworn—oracle of the Lord—Bozrah[a] shall become an object of horror, a disgrace, a desolation, and a curse. Bozrah and all its cities shall become ruins forever.(C)

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  1. 49:13 Bozrah: capital of Edom.

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.