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20     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!
21 Make ready to slaughter his sons
    for the guilt of their fathers;(A)
Lest they rise and possess the earth,
    and fill the breadth of the world with cities.[a]

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

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Footnotes

  1. 14:21 Cities: if the text is correct, it presumably refers to cities as expressions of human pride, authority, and oppression (cf. Gn 11:1–9; Na 3:1–4).