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20 You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land and have slain your people. May the descendants of evildoers nevermore be named!

21 Prepare a slaughtering place for his sons because of the guilt and iniquity of their fathers, so that they may not rise, possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.

22 And I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son, says the Lord.

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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 You will not be joined with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people.
(A)The brood of evildoers shall never be named.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children
(B)Because of the iniquity of their fathers,
Lest they rise up and possess the land,
And fill the face of the world with cities.”

Babylon Destroyed

22 “For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And cut off from Babylon (C)the name and (D)remnant,
(E)And offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.

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