Their offspring You shall destroy from the earth, And their descendants from among the sons of men.
For the Lord loves justice, And does not forsake His saints; They are preserved forever, But the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.
And this thing was the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as to exterminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.
Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
The increase of his house will depart, And his goods will flow away in the day of His wrath.
“For behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch.
You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named.
But the man who touches them Must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear, And they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.”