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


In Context

8 Turn and flee, hide in deep caves, you who live in Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.

9 If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave a few grapes? If thieves came during the night, would they not steal only as much as they wanted?

10 But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, so that he cannot conceal himself. His children, relatives and neighbors will perish, and he will be no more.

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

12 This is what the Lord says: "If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must drink it.

13 I swear by myself," declares the Lord , "that Bozrah will become a ruin and an object of horror, of reproach and of cursing; and all its towns will be in ruins forever."

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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

49:11Leave thine orphans, 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.