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


In Context

8 Flee, turn back, dwell deep down, ye inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I visit him.

9 If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a gleaning? If thieves by night, they would destroy only till they had enough.

10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, that he is unable to hide himself: his seed is wasted, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

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

12 For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and thou indeed, shouldest thou be altogether unpunished? Thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink.

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

Jeremiah 49:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

49:11Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

49:11Leave your orphans; I will protect their lives. Your widows too can trust in me."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

49:11Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

49:11Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

49:11Leave thine orphans — I do keep alive, And thy widows — on Me trust ye,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

49:11Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.