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Jeremiah 49:11 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 49 · verse 11
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.Jeremiah 49:11 · King James Version
Jeremiah 49:11 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenyâthôwma bereaved personH3490 →
- widowsʼalmânâha widowH490 →
- Leaveʻâzabto loosenH5800 →
- alivechâyâhto live, whether literally or figurativelyH2421 →
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The Edomites come next to receive their doom from God, by the mouth of Jeremiah: they also were old enemies to the Israel of God; but their day will come to be reckoned with, and it is now at hand, and is foretold, not only for warning to them, but for comfort to the Israel of God, whose afflictions were very much…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-22