Jeremiah 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.”

Ge 22:16; Ge 36:33; Isa 34:6; Isa 34:9-15; Isa 45:23; Isa 63:1; Jer 44:26; Jer 49:17,18; Jer 49:22; Eze 25:13,14; Eze 35:2-15; Eze 35:11; Joe 3:19; Am 1:12; Am 6:8; Ob 1:18; Mal 1:3,4

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

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).

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