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

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:13 tn Heb “I swear by myself.” See 22:5 and the study note there.
  2. Jeremiah 49:13 sn Bozrah appears to have been the chief city in Edom, its capital city (see its parallelism with Edom in Isa 34:6; 63:1; Jer 49:22). The reference to “its towns” (translated here “all the towns around it”) could then be a reference to all the towns in Edom. It was located about twenty-five miles southeast of the southern end of the Dead Sea, apparently in the district of Teman (see the parallelism in Amos 1:12).
  3. Jeremiah 49:13 tn See the study note on 24:9 for the rendering of this term.