Isaiah 14:20-22

New International Reader's Version

²⁰ You won’t be buried like other kings.
That’s because you have destroyed your land.
You have killed your people.

“Let the children of that evil man be killed.
    Let none of them be left to carry on the family name.
²¹So prepare a place to kill his children.
    Kill them because of the sins of the rulers
    who lived before them.
They must not rise to power.
    They must not rule over the world.
    They must not cover the earth with their cities.”

²²“I will rise up against them,”
    announces the Lord who rules over all.
“I will destroy Babylon.
    It will not be remembered anymore.
No one will be left alive there.
    I will destroy its people and their children after them,”
    announces the Lord.