Isaiah 14:20

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.”

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BSBPD

“You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 14:20 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Kings 9:35But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
  2. Job 18:16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
  3. Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
  4. Job 18:19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
  5. Psalms 21:10You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
  6. Psalms 37:28For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
  7. Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
  8. Psalms 137:8O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
  9. Isaiah 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
  10. Isaiah 13:15Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

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