Amos 9:2

Good News Translation

Even if they dig their way down to the world of the dead, I will catch them. Even if they climb up to heaven, I will bring them down.

Cross References

Job 20:6

They may grow great, towering to the sky, so great that their heads reach the clouds,

Job 22:13

And yet you ask, “What does God know? He is hidden by clouds—how can he judge us?”

Job 24:23

God may let them live secure, but keeps an eye on them all the time.

Job 26:6

The world of the dead lies open to God; no covering shields it from his sight.

Job 34:22

There is no darkness dark enough to hide a sinner from God.

Isaiah 2:19

People will hide in caves in the rocky hills or dig holes in the ground to try to escape from the Lord's anger and to hide from his power and glory, when he comes to shake the earth.

Jeremiah 49:16

Your pride has deceived you. No one fears you as much as you think they do. You live on the rocky cliffs, high on top of the mountain; but even though you live as high up as an eagle, the Lord will bring you down. The Lord has spoken.”

Jeremiah 51:53

Even if Babylon could climb to the sky and build a strong fortress there, I would still send people to destroy it. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Ezekiel 26:20

I will send you down to the world of the dead to join the people who lived in ancient times. I will make you stay in that underground world among eternal ruins, keeping company with the dead. As a result you will never again be inhabited and take your place in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:14

And so from now on, no tree, no matter how well-watered it is, will grow that tall again or push its top through the clouds and reach such a height. All of them are doomed to die like mortals, doomed to join those who go down to the world of the dead.”

Obadiah 1:4

Even though you make your home as high as an eagle's nest, so that it seems to be among the stars, yet I will pull you down.

Luke 10:18

Jesus answered them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.