³ But better than both
    is the one who has never been born,^(A)
who has not seen the evil
    that is done under the sun.^(B)

¹⁹ But you are cast out^(A) of your tomb
    like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,^(B)
    with those pierced by the sword,^(C)
    those who descend to the stones of the pit.^(D)
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,

²⁰     you will not join them in burial,^(A)
for you have destroyed your land
    and killed your people.

Let the offspring^(B) of the wicked^(C)
    never be mentioned^(D) again.

¹⁹ He will have the burial^(A) of a donkey—
    dragged away and thrown^(B)
    outside the gates of Jerusalem.”