Yeremia 33:12

33:12 “I, the Lord who rules over all, say: ¹  ‘This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep.

Yeremia 49:13

49:13 For I solemnly swear,” ²  says the Lord, “that Bozrah ³  will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses. ⁴  All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever.”

[33:12]  ¹ tn Heb “Thus says Yahweh of armies.” For the explanation for the first person introduction see the translator’s notes on 33:2, 10. Verses 4, 10, 12 introduce three oracles, all under the answer to the Lord’s promise to Jeremiah to show him “great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.”

[49:13]  ² tn Heb “I swear by myself.” See 22:5 and the study note there.

[49:13]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn See the study note on 24:9 for the rendering of this term.