²⁰ As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

¹⁹ He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

¹⁰ Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

¹⁶ Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

²⁸ For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

¹³ Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.

⁸ O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.

⁹ Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.

⁴ O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

¹⁵ Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.

¹⁶ Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

¹⁷ See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.

¹⁸ In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.

¹⁹ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.