20     you will not join them in burial,(A)
for you have destroyed your land
    and killed your people.

Let the offspring(B) of the wicked(C)
    never be mentioned(D) again.
21 Prepare a place to slaughter his children(E)
    for the sins of their ancestors;(F)
they are not to rise to inherit the land
    and cover the earth with their cities.

22 “I will rise up(G) against them,”
    declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will wipe out Babylon’s name(H) and survivors,
    her offspring and descendants,(I)
declares the Lord.

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20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

22 For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.

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