Isaiah 14:20

you will not be buried like those other kings because you destroyed your own land and killed your own people. The descendants of those who do evil will never survive.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

19But you are thrown out of your grave like a branch nobody wants, buried underneath the bodies of those killed by the sword. You are like a corpse trodden underfoot. You are tossed into a pit full of rocks—

21Get ready to execute his sons because of their fathers' sins. Don't let them take over the earth; don't let them fill the whole world with their cities.

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Cross References

Job 18:16They wither away, roots below and branches above;

Job 18:19They have no children or descendants among their people, and no survivors where they used to live.

Psalms 37:28For the Lord loves fairness and he will never abandon those who are trustworthy. He will protect them forever. But the children of the wicked will die.

Psalms 137:8Daughter of Babylon, you will be destroyed! Happy is the one who pays you back, who does to you what you did to us!

Isaiah 13:15Anyone who is captured will be stabbed to death; anyone who is caught will be killed by the sword.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 14:5-24

The Doom of the King of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of… Read the whole commentary →

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