Isaiah 14:21

Prepare slaughter for his children; O ye Medes and Persians, cut off all the branches of the royal family of Babylon. For the iniquity of their fathers; in the guilt whereof the children are justly involved, partly because of that community of nature and interest which is between parents and children, which makes them for the most part bear a share with them, as in their rewards and advantages, so also in their punishments and miseries; and partly because they justified their sins by their impenitency, and imitation of their wicked example. Do not rise, i.e. not recover their former splendour and power. With cities; erected by them, either as instruments of tyranny, to keep the country round about them in slavery, or as monuments of their power and riches, as Babylon was, Daniel 4:30.