Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building.
Genesis 18:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I will go down to see if what they have done justifies the cry that has come up to me. If not, I will find out.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether [as vilely and wickedly] as is the cry of it which has come to Me; and if not, I will know. American Standard Version (1901) I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. Common English Bible I will go down now to examine the cries of injustice that have reached me. Have they really done all this? If not, I want to know.” Catholic Public Domain Version I will descend and see whether they have fulfilled the work of the outcry that has reached me, or whether it is not so, in order that I may know." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me: or whether it be not so, that I may know. |
Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building.
Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.’
Then the Lord said, ‘Should I hide what I am about to do from Abraham?
God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth.
and I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey #– #the territory of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
For the Lord said to Moses, ‘Tell the Israelites: You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewellery, and I will decide what to do with you.’
The sin of Judah is inscribed with an iron stylus. With a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns of their altars,
I, the Lord, examine the mind, I test the heart , to give to each according to his way, according to what his actions deserve.
‘Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it because their evil has come up before me.’
Look, the Lord is leaving his place and coming down to trample the heights of the earth.
And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who settle down comfortably, , who say to themselves: ‘The Lord will do nothing #– #good or bad.’
And he told them, ‘You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul.
Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, , with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
No creature is hidden from him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
‘The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! , He knows, and may Israel also know. Do not spare us today, if it was in rebellion or treachery against the Lord