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Jeremiah 49:11

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Jeremiah 49:11 · King James Version

In other versions

  • Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

    ASV

  • Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.

    BBE

  • Leave thine orphans, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

    DBY

  • Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

    WEB

  • Leave thine orphans -- I do keep alive, And thy widows -- on Me trust ye,

    YLT

  • Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

    ENG

  • Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

    WBT

  • Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”

    BSB

In context

9If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

11Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

12For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

13For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

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