# Prepare your slaughter for his children "Get ready to kill the children of the king of Babylon" # for the iniquity of their ancestors "because their forefathers have sinned greatly" # so they will not rise up "so they will not become powerful" or "so they will not attack" # possess the earth "take control of the peoples on the earth" or "conquer the peoples on the earth" # fill the whole world with cities "build cities all over the world"