⁴ Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

⁵ Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.

¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.

⁴ Or those eighteen men who were crushed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, were they worse than all the other men living in Jerusalem?

⁵ I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.

¹² For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

⁹ Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

¹⁰ Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

¹¹ Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.

¹² Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.

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

¹⁴ Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

¹⁵ Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

² So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

¹⁴ If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

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

¹⁷ His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

¹⁸ He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

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

⁷ Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

⁴ If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

¹⁰ Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

¹¹ The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

¹⁹ When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

⁵ You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;