And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower with its head in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, that we not be scattered on the face of all the earth.
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite, and opened its mouth without measure, and her glory and her multitude, and her uproar, he who exults in her, shall go down in it.
Though Babylon should go up to the heavens, and though she should fortify her strong heights, ones devastating shall come from Me to her, a statement of Jehovah.
And I will bring you down with those going down into the Pit, with the people in days of old, and I shall set you in the earth’s lowest parts, in places ruined from days of old, with ones going down to the Pit, so that you have none living in you. But I gave glory in the land of the living.
To whom are you like in glory and greatness among Eden’s trees? Yet you shall go down with the trees of Eden to the earth’s lowest parts. You shall lie amidst the uncircumcised with the pierced ones of the sword. He is Pharaoh and all his host, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
Son of man, wail over the host of Egypt, and bring it down, her and the daughters of the majestic nations, to the earth’s lowest parts, with those going down to the Pit.
And they shall not lie with the mighty ones of the uncircumcised who are fallen, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war. And they have put their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be on their bones, though the terror of the mighty ones was in the land of the living.
And you should not fear the ones killing the body, but not being able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him, the One being able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.
And you, Capernaum, who “have been exalted to the heaven, you will be thrown down to Hades.” For if the powerful acts happening in you had taken place in Sodom, it would remain until today. Isa. 14:13, 15
There will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrust outside.
Where shall we go up? Our brothers have melted our hearts, saying, We have seen there a people greater and taller than we, cities great and walled up to the heavens, and also the sons of Anak.