Isaiah 14:20 “You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land a…”

Isaiah 14:20

You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.

American Standard Version

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou shalt not be ioyned with them in the graue, because thou hast destroied thine owne lande, and slaine thy people: the seede of the wicked shall not be renoumed for euer.

Darby Translation

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever.

Young's Literal Translation

Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers.

Bible in Basic English

As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

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Cross references

“the seed”

Job 18:19 Psalm 21:10 Psalm 37:28 Psalm 109:13 Isaiah 13:15–19 Job 18:16

Job 18:19 · BSB

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

Psalm 21:10 · BSB

You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

Psalm 37:28 · BSB

For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

Psalm 109:13 · BSB

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Isaiah 13:15–19 · BSB

Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

Job 18:16 · BSB

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Also

Isaiah 1:4

Isaiah 1:4 · BSB

Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

21Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

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