Jeremiah Chapter 49 verse 11 Holy Bible
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
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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.
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Leave thine orphans, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
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Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
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Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
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Leave thine orphans -- I do keep alive, And thy widows -- on Me trust ye,
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Jeremiah 49 : 11 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 11-13. - A merciful mitigation of the prophet's stern threat. The true God will provide for the widows and orphans, if Edom will but commit them to him. And let not Edom think it strange that he is punished; for even Israel, the chosen people, has drunk of the bitter cup. Yea, Jehovah has sworn "by himself" that all Edom's cities shall be laid waste. Verse 11. - Leave thy fatherless children, etc. The invitation means more than might be supposed. It is equivalent to a promise of the revival of the Edomitish people (comp. on Jeremiah 46:26; 48:47).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Leave thy fatherless children . . .--Were the words uttered in the stern irony of one who veils & threat in the form of a promise, as some have thought, or was there even in the case of Edom a mingling of pity for the helpless? The latter view seems truer to the prophet's character (Jeremiah 48:36). If the sentence was passed which left the wives of Edom widows, and their children orphans, yet God had not forgotten that He was the God of the widow and the fatherless.
