11. “Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive.Your widows too can depend on 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 a curse, an object of horror and reproach; and all its towns will be in ruins for ever.’
14. I have heard a message from the Lord;an envoy was sent to the nations to say,‘Assemble yourselves to attack it!Rise up for battle!’
15. ‘Now I will make you small among the nations,despised by mankind.