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11 Leave your orphans—I will keep them alive,
and let your widows trust in Me.”
12 For thus says Adonai:
“Behold, if those who do not deserve to drink the cup must surely drink,
can you go utterly unpunished?
You will not go unpunished,
for you shall surely drink!
13 For I have sworn by Myself”
—it is a declaration of Adonai
“that Bozrah will become a horror,
a disgrace, a waste and a curse.
All its towns will be ruins forever.”

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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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Footnotes

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