Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;
Amos 9:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Though they dig into Sheol (Hades, the dark abode of the gathered dead), from there shall My hand take them; though they climb up to heaven [the abode of light], from there will I bring them down; American Standard Version (1901) Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. Common English Bible If they dig through into the underworld, from there my hand will take them. If they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down. Catholic Public Domain Version If they descend even to the underworld, from there my hand will draw them out; and if they ascend even to the sky, from there will I pull them down. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. |
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;
And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes are upon their ways.
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.
As for thy terribleness, the pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD;
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:
to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up in their height, even all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be set among the stars, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.