11. "Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive; And let your widows trust in Me."
12. For thus says the Lord, "Behold, those who were not sentenced to drink the cup will certainly drink it, and are you the one who will be completely acquitted? You will not be acquitted, but you will certainly drink it.
13. For I have sworn by Myself," declares the Lord, "that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins."
14. I have heard a message from the Lord, And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying, "Gather yourselves together and come against her, And rise up for battle!"
15. "For behold, I have made you small among the nations, Despised among men.
16. "As for the terror of you, The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, O you who live in the clefts of the rock, Who occupy the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as an eagle's, I will bring you down from there," declares the Lord.
17. "Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss at all its wounds.
18. Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors," says the Lord, "no one will live there, nor will a son of man reside in it.