Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”
Luke 10:15 - English Standard Version 2016 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted unto heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades (the regions of the dead). American Standard Version (1901) And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt be brought down unto Hades. Common English Bible And you, Capernaum, will you be honored by being raised up to heaven? No, you will be cast down to the place of the dead. Catholic Public Domain Version And as for you, Capernaum, who would be exalted even up to Heaven: you shall be submerged into Hell. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou, Capharnaum, which art exalted unto heaven, thou shalt be thrust down to hell. |
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her.
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the Lord.
then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.
“Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God.”
“Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:
They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword. Egypt is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and all her multitudes.
And they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living.
Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,
In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.
and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”’
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;