New English Translation

Jeremiah 49:9-13 New English Translation (NET)

9. If grape pickers came to pick your grapes,would they not leave a few grapes behind?If robbers came at night,would they not pillage only what they needed?

10. But I will strip everything away from Esau’s descendants.I will uncover their hiding places so they cannot hide.Their children, relatives, and neighbors will all be destroyed.Not one of them will be left!

11. Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive.Your widows too can depend on me.”

12. For the Lord says, “If even those who did not deserve to drink from the cup of my wrath must drink from it, do you think you will go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must certainly drink from the cup of my wrath.

13. For I solemnly swear,” says the Lord, “that Bozrah will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses. All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever.”