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26 Utter darkness is laid up for their treasures;
    a fire fanned by no one will devour them;
    what is left in their tent will be consumed.(A)

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You will make them like a fiery furnace
    when you appear.
The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath,
    and fire will consume them.(A)

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A warrior’s sharp arrows,
    with glowing coals of the broom tree!(A)

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13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.(A)

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12 while the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”(A)

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12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”(A)

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33 For his burning place[a] has long been prepared, also for the king;[b] its pyre is made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.(A)

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  1. 30.33 Or Topheth
  2. 30.33 Or Molech

20 You will not be joined with them in burial
    because you have destroyed your land;
    you have killed your people.

May the descendants of evildoers
    nevermore be named!(A)
21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons
    because of the guilt of their father.[a]
Let them never rise to possess the earth
    or cover the face of the world with cities.(B)

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

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  1. 14.21 Syr Compare Gk: Heb fathers

22 or they will look to the earth, but they will see only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and they will be thrust into thick darkness.[a](A)

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  1. 8.22 Meaning of Heb uncertain

May his children be orphans
    and his wife a widow.(A)
10 May his children wander about and beg;
    may they be driven out of[a] the ruins they inhabit.
11 May the creditor seize all that he has;
    may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.(B)
12 May there be no one to do him a kindness
    nor anyone to pity his orphaned children.(C)
13 May his posterity be cut off;
    may his name be blotted out in the second generation.(D)
14 May the iniquity of his father[b] be remembered before the Lord,
    and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.(E)
15 Let them be before the Lord continually,
    and may his[c] memory be cut off from the earth.(F)

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  1. 109.10 Gk: Heb may they seek
  2. 109.14 Cn: Heb fathers
  3. 109.15 Gk: Heb their

18 They are thrust from light into darkness
    and driven out of the world.
19 They have no offspring or descendant among their people
    and no survivor where they used to live.(A)

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“Surely the light of the wicked is put out,
    and the flame of their fire does not shine.(A)
The light is dark in their tent,
    and the lamp above them is put out.

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