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Jeremiah 49:11
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Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;let your widows trust in me.
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me."
"Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive; And let your widows trust in Me."
Leave the orphans, and I will take care of them. Your widows also can trust in me."
"Leave your orphans behind; I will [do what is needed to] keep them alive. And let [those who are] your widows trust and confide in Me."
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
Leaue thy fathers children, and I will preserue them aliue, and let thy widowes trust in me.
Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive;And let your widows trust in Me."
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me."
Leave your orphans; I will keep them alive; let your widows trust in me."
Leave thine orphans, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
No one will be left to care for his children. His wives will have no one to depend on."
Leave your fatherless children; I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
Leave your orphans with me, and I will take care of them. Your widows can depend on me.
Leave your orphans. I will let them live. And your widows, let them trust in me."
Leave your orphans, I will keep them alive. And let your widows trust in Me.
Thou shalt leaue thy fatherlesse children behinde the, and I will kepe them and thy wydowes shall take their comforth in me.
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
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.
Leave thy fatherless children, I will rear them, and let thy widows trust in Me.
Leaue thy fatherlesse children, I will preserue them aliue: and let thy widowes trust in me.
Thou shalt leaue thy fatherlesse chyldren behynde thee, and I wyll kepe them, and thy wydowes shal take their comfort in me.
Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to deliver you, and save you out of their hand.
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Forsake thi fadirles children, and Y schal make hem to lyue, and thi widewis schulen hope in me.
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me."
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; And let your widows trust in Me."
But I will protect the orphans who remain among you. Your widows, too, can depend on me for help."
Leave your children behind, who have lost their parents, and I will keep them alive. And let your women whose husbands have died trust in Me."
Leave your orphans, I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
Leave thy fatherless children I, will preserve them alive, - And thy widows, In me, let them trust.
Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.
Leave your fatherless children, I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me."
Leave thine orphans -- I do keep alive, And thy widows -- on Me trust ye,
"Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive; And let your widows trust in Me."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thy fatherless: Deuteronomy 10:18, Psalms 10:14-18, Psalms 68:5, Psalms 82:3, Psalms 146:9, Proverbs 23:10, Proverbs 23:11, Hosea 14:3, Jonah 4:11, Malachi 3:5, James 1:27
let thy: 1 Timothy 5:5
Reciprocal: Numbers 27:7 - General Luke 4:4 - That Acts 20:32 - I commend 1 Timothy 5:3 - widows 1 Peter 3:5 - who
Cross-References
Jacob called his sons together and said: My sons, I am Jacob, your father Israel.
Reuben, you are my oldest, born at the peak of my powers; you were an honored leader.
There were so many people living in Judah and Israel while Solomon was king that they seemed like grains of sand on a beach. Everyone had enough to eat and drink, and they were happy.
Everyone living in Israel, from the town of Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, was safe as long as Solomon lived. Each family sat undisturbed beneath its own grape vines and fig trees.
for a while. Then he will come and take you away to a country just like yours, where you can plant vineyards, raise your own grain, and have plenty of olive oil and honey. Believe me, you won't starve there. Hezekiah claims the Lord will save you. But don't be fooled by him.
On that day, fruitful vineyards will cover the mountains. And your cattle and goats that graze on the hills will produce a lot of milk. Streams in Judah will never run dry; a stream from my house will flow in Acacia Valley.
Everyone will find rest beneath their own fig trees or grape vines, and they will live in peace. This is a solemn promise of the Lord All-Powerful.
"Sir," I answered, "you must know." Then he told me: "These are the ones who have gone through the great suffering. They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and have made them white.
You can eat the flesh of kings, rulers, leaders, horses, riders, free people, slaves, important people, and everyone else."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive,.... Leave them with me; commit them to my care; I will provide for them; they shall have food and raiment, and want nothing to make them comfortable: to have such a friend or friends, promising such things to a man, when he is obliged to flee and leave his family, or is at the point of death, serves to make him easy; but there would be none left of the Edomites to say such kind words, or do such a friendly part. Some think they are the words of God, either spoken ironically or seriously; suggesting that they should have no children or widows to leave, all should be destroyed; or, if any left, they could not expect that he would take care of them, whom they had so provoked; or that such would be their miserable case, unless he had mercy on them, and took care of their fatherless children, there would be none to do it. Others think it respects a remnant of the Edomites that should be preserved, and be converted to Christ in Gospel times. The Targum takes them to be an address to the people of Israel, paraphrasing them thus:
"you, O house of Israel, your orphans shall not be left, I will sustain them, and your widows shall trust in my word:''
which last clause we render,
let your widows trust in me; which, could they be considered as the words of God, agree well with him, who is the Father of the fatherless, and Judge of the widows, Psalms 68:5; and a great encouragement to persons, in such circumstances, to place their confidence in him; and it must be right so to do.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same relation to Judah which Moab held toward the kingdom of Israel. Although expressly reserved from attack by Moses Deuteronomy 2:5, a long feud caused the Edomites to cherish so bitter an enmity against Judah, that they exulted with cruel joy over the capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldaeans, and showed great cruelty toward those why fled to them for refuge.
Of the prophecies against Edom the first eight verses of Obadiah are also found in Jeremiah (see the marginal references). As Jeremiah wrote before the capture of Jerusalem, and Obadiah apparently after it (see Jeremiah 49:13-14), it might seem certain that Obadiah copied from Jeremiah. Others held the reverse view; while some consider that the two prophets may both have made common use of some ancient prediction. See the introduction to Obadiah.
The prophecy is divisible into three strophes. In the first Jeremiah 49:7-13, the prophet describes Edom as terror-stricken.
Jeremiah 49:7
Teman - A strip of land on the northeast of Edom, put here for Edom generally. Its inhabitants were among those “children of the East” famed for wisdom, because of their skill in proverbs and dark sayings.
Jeremiah 49:8
Dwell deep - Jeremiah 49:30. The Dedanites, who were used to travel through the Edomite territory with their caravans, are advised to retire as far as possible into the Arabian deserts to be out of the way of the invaders.
Jeremiah 49:9
Translate it: “If vintagers come to thee, they will not leave any gleaning: if thieves by night, they will destroy their fill.”
Jeremiah 49:10
But - For. The reason why the invaders destroy Edom so completely. His secret places are the hiding-places in the mountains of Seir.
His seed - Esau’s seed, the Edomites; his brethren are the nations joined with him in the possession of the land, Amalek, and perhaps the Simeonites; his neighbors are Dedan, Tema, Buz.
Jeremiah 49:11
As with Moab Jeremiah 48:47, and Ammon Jeremiah 49:6, so there is mercy for Edom. The widows shall be protected, and in the orphans of Edom the nation shall once again revive.
Jeremiah 49:12
Translate it: “Behold they whose rule was not to drink of the cup shall surely drink etc.” It was not the ordinary manner of God’s people to suffer from His wrath: but now when they are drinking of the wine-cup of fury Jeremiah 25:15, how can those not in covenant with Him hope to escape?
Jeremiah 49:14-18
The second strophe, Edom’s chastisement.
Jeremiah 49:14
Rumour - Or, “revelation.”
Ambassador - Or, messenger, i. e., herald. The business of an ambassador is to negotiate, of a herald to carry a message.
Jeremiah 49:15
Small ... - Rather, small among the nations, i. e., of no political importance.
Jeremiah 49:16
Edom’s “terribleness” consisted in her cities being hewn in the sides of inaccessible rocks, from where she could suddenly descend for predatory warfare, and retire to her fastnesses without fear of reprisals.
The clefts of the rock - Or, the fastnesses of Sela, the rock-city, Petra (see Isaiah 16:1).
The hill - i. e., Bozrah.
Jeremiah 49:17
Better, “And Edom shall become a terror: every passer by shalt be terrified, and shudder etc.”
Jeremiah 49:18
Neighbour ... - Admah and Zeboim.
A son of man - i. e., “Any man.” From 536 a.d. onward, Petra suddenly vanishes from the pages of history. Only in the present century was its real site discovered.
Jeremiah 49:19-22
Concluding strophe. The fall of Edom is compared to the state of a flock worried by an enemy strong as a lion Jeremiah 4:7, and swift as an eagle.
Jeremiah 49:19
The swelling of Jordan - Or, the pride of Jordan, the thickets on his banks (marginal reference note).
Against the habitation of the strong - Or, to the abiding pasturage. The lion stalks forth from the jungle to attack the fold, sure to find sheep there because of the perennial (evergreen) pasturage: “but I will suddenly make him (the flock, Edom) run away from her (or it, the pasturage).”
And who is a chosen ... - Better, and I will appoint over it, the abandoned land of Edom, him who is chosen, i. e., my chosen ruler Nebuchadnezzar.
Who will appoint me the time? - The plaintiff, in giving notice of a suit, had to mention the time when the defendant must appear (see the margin). Yahweh identifies himself with Nebuchadnezzar Jeremiah 25:9, and shows the hopelessness of Edom’s cause. For who is like Yahweh, His equal in power and might? Who will dare litigate with Him, and question His right? etc.
Jeremiah 49:20
Surely the least ... - Rather, Surely they will worry them, the feeble ones of the flock: surely their pasture shall be terror-stricken over them. No shepherd can resist Nebuchadnezzar Jeremiah 49:19, but all flee, and leave the sheep unprotected. Thereupon, the Chaldaeans enter, and treat the poor feeble flock so barbarously, that the very fold is horrified at their cruelty.
Jeremiah 49:21
Is moved - Quakes.
At the cry ... - The arrangement is much more poetical in the Hebrew, The shriek - to the sea of Suph (Exodus 10:19 note) is heard its sound.
Jeremiah 49:22
Nebuchadnezzar shall swoop down like an eagle, the emblem of swiftness.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 49:11. Leave thy fatherless children — The connexion of this with the context is not easy to be discerned; but, as a general maxim, it is of great importance. Widows and orphans are the peculiar care of God. He is as the best of fathers to the one, and the most loving of husbands to the other. Even the widows and orphans of Esau, who escape the general destruction, shall be taken care of by the Lord.
