20
As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shalt thou be pure; because thou hast destroyed my land, and hast slain my people: thou shalt not endure for ever, — an evil seed.
21
Prepare thy children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.
22
And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus saith the Lord.
23
And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell , and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.
24
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be: and as I have purposed, so shall remain:
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.