Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 49:11

11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widowes trust in me .

The onely question upon this verse is whether in the whole of it, it be a promise, or a threatning; if it be a promise the sense is that though this great destruction should come upon the body of the Edomites, yet God would take care of some of their fatherless children, whose Parents being carried into captivity they had none to provide for them: if it be taken as an ironical threatning it soundeth ruine to those as well as the rest, and I will is as much as I will not, but others think that these are rather to be understood with the supply of some other words. There is not, or there shall be none to say, leave thy fatherless Children, &c. and whoso considereth those words in the 10th. verse, his seed shall be spoiled, will see reason to judge it rather a threatning (whether by way of Irony or no) then a promise.