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Jeremiah 49:13

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49:13 For I solemnly swear,” 1  says the Lord, “that Bozrah 2  will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses. 3  All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever.”

Jeremiah 51:43

Context

51:43 The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins.

She has become a dry and barren desert.

No one lives in those towns any more.

No one even passes through them. 4 

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[49:13]  1 tn Heb “I swear by myself.” See 22:5 and the study note there.

[49:13]  2 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).

[49:13]  3 tn See the study note on 24:9 for the rendering of this term.

[51:43]  4 tn Heb “Its towns have become a desolation, [it has become] a dry land and a desert, a land which no man passes through them [referring to “her towns”] and no son of man [= human being] passes through them.” Here the present translation has followed the suggestion of BHS and a number of the modern commentaries in deleting the second occurrence of the word “land,” in which case the words that follow are not a relative clause but independent statements. A number of modern English versions appear to ignore the third feminine plural suffixes which refer back to the cities and refer the statements that follow to the land.



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