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19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
    like loathsome carrion,[a]
clothed with the dead, those pierced by the sword,
    who go down to the stones of the Pit
    like a corpse trampled underfoot.(A)
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!(B)
21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons
    because of the guilt of their father.[b]
Let them never rise to possess the earth
    or cover the face of the world with cities.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 14.19 Cn Compare Gk: Heb like a loathed branch
  2. 14.21 Syr Compare Gk: Heb fathers