19. But you are cast away from your own gravelike a rejected branch,covered by the deadand those pierced by the sword—who go down to the stony pit—like a trampled corpse.
20. 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!
21. Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their father. Don’t let them arise to take over the earth or fill the world with cities.
22. I will arise against them, says the Lord of heavenly forces. I will cut off Babylon’s renown and remnant, offshoot and offspring.
23. I will make it the home of herons, a swampland. I will sweep it away with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of heavenly forces.
24. The Lord of heavenly forces has promised:As I intended, so it will be;and as I have planned, so it will happen: