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.”
14. I said, “I have heard a message from the Lord.A messenger has been sent among the nations to say,‘Gather your armies and march out against her!Prepare to do battle with her!’”
15. The Lord says to Edom, “I will certainly make you small among nations.I will make you despised by all humankind.