Isaiah 14:19-21

New International Reader's Version

¹⁹But you have been thrown out of your tomb.
    You are like a branch that is cut off and thrown away.
You are covered with the bodies
    of those who have been killed by swords.
    You have been tossed into a stony pit along with them.
You are like a dead body that people have walked on.
²⁰    You won’t be buried like other kings.
That’s because you have destroyed your land.
    You have killed your people.

“Let the children of that evil man be killed.
    Let none of them be left to carry on the family name.
²¹So prepare a place to kill his children.
    Kill them because of the sins of the rulers
    who lived before them.
They must not rise to power.
    They must not rule over the world.
    They must not cover the earth with their cities.”