For I have sworn
shaba` (shaw-bah')
propr. to be complete; to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
by myself saith
n'um (neh-oom')
an oracle -- (hath) said, saith.
the LORD
Yhovah (yeh-ho-vaw')
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God -- Jehovah, the Lord.
that Bozrah
Botsrah (bots-raw')
Botsrah, a place in Edom -- Bozrah.
shall become a desolation
shammah (sham-maw')
ruin; by implication, consternation -- astonishment, desolate(-ion), waste, wonderful thing.
a reproach
cherpah (kher-paw')
contumely, disgrace, the pudenda -- rebuke, reproach(-fully), shame.
a waste
choreb (kho'-reb)
drought or desolation -- desolation, drought, dry, heat, utterly, waste.
and a curse
qlalah (kel-aw-law')
vilification -- (ac-)curse(-d, -ing).
and all the cities
`iyr (eer)
or (in the plural) par {awr}; or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) -- Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
thereof shall be perpetual
`owlam (o-lawm')
concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
wastes
chorbah (khor-baw')
drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation -- decayed place, desolate (place, -tion), destruction, (laid) waste (place).
