Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Jeremiah 49:11
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Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
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Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
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Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
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Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
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Jeremiah 49
9 If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?
10 But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.
11 Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
12 For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.
13 For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
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