◄ Isaiah 14:20 ►
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Good News Translation
Because you ruined your country and killed your own people, you will not be buried like other kings. None of your evil family will survive.

New Revised Standard Version
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!

Contemporary English Version
You won't be buried with kings; you ruined your country and murdered your people. You evil monster! We hope that your family will be forgotten forever.

New American Bible
You will never be together with them in the grave, For you have ruined your land, you have slain your people! Let him never be named, that offshoot of evil!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever.

the seed

Isaiah 13:15-19 Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword. . . .

Job 18:16,19 Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above. . . .

Psalm 21:10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men.

Psalm 37:28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 109:13 May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

Psalm 137:8,9 O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us. . . .

Context
Downfall of the King of Babylon
…19But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass. 20Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever.21Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of their fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.…
Cross References
Job 18:16
Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above.

Job 18:19
His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.

Psalm 21:10
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men.

Psalm 37:28
For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Isaiah 1:4
Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

Isaiah 9:17
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men: neither shall he have mercy on their fatherless, and widows: for every one is a hypocrite and wicked, and every mouth hath spoken folly. For all this his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 31:2
But he that is the wise one hath brought evil, and hath not removed his words: and he will rise up against the house of the wicked, and against the aid of them that work iniquity.

Isaiah 14:19
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