But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
Isaiah 14:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 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! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land and have slain your people. May the descendants of evildoers nevermore be named! American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible You won’t join them in burial, for you destroyed your own land; you killed your own people. Such evil offspring will never be mentioned again! Catholic Public Domain Version You will not be associated with them, even in the grave. For you have destroyed your own land; you have slain your own people. The offspring of the wicked ones will not be called upon for eternity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
Their memory perishes from the earth, and they have no name in the street.
They have no offspring or descendant among their people and no survivor where they used to live.
May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation.
You will destroy their offspring from the earth and their children from among humankind.
For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his faithful ones. The righteous shall be kept safe forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Woe, sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, offspring who do evil, children who act corruptly, who have forsaken the Lord, who have despised the Holy One of Israel, [[who are utterly estranged!]]
Yet he is wise and can bring disaster; he does not depart from his words but will rise against the house of the evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.
That is why the Lord did not have pity on their young people or compassion on their orphans and widows, for everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke folly. For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.