11 (A)Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive;
    (B)and let your widows trust in me.”

12 For thus says the Lord: (C)“If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, (D)will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink. 13 (E)For I have sworn by myself, declares the Lord, that (F)Bozrah shall become (G)a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.”

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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.