“For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”
Jeremiah 49:13 (WEB)
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11Leave your fatherless children.I will preserve them alive.Let your widows trust in me.” 12For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink. 13For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.” 14I have heard news from Yahweh,and an ambassador is sent among the nations,saying, “Gather yourselves together!Come against her!Rise up to the battle!” 15“For, behold, I have made you small among the nations,and despised among men.