Then they said, “Come! Let’s build ourselves a city, with a tower whose top reaches into heaven. So let’s make a name for ourselves, or else we will be scattered over the face of the whole land.”
Daniel 4:11 - Tree of Life Version He called loudly, saying: ‘Chop down the tree and cut off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit! Let beasts flee from under it, and birds from its branches. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The tree grew and was strong and its height reached to the heavens, and the sight of it reached to the end of the whole earth. American Standard Version (1901) The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth. Common English Bible The tree grew in size and strength; it was as high as the sky; it could be seen from every corner of the earth. Catholic Public Domain Version He cried out loudly, and he said this: "Cut down the tree and prune its branches; shake off its leaves and scatter its fruits; let flee the beasts, which are under it, and the birds from its branches. English Standard Version 2016 The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth. |
Then they said, “Come! Let’s build ourselves a city, with a tower whose top reaches into heaven. So let’s make a name for ourselves, or else we will be scattered over the face of the whole land.”
Ruthless barbarians from the nations cut it down. They cast it down on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches fell. Its branches have laid broken in all the streambeds of the land. All the people of the earth have come out from its shade and abandoned it.
Therefore its height was loftier than all the trees of the field. Its branches multiplied and its boughs became long because of the abundant water in its shoots.
And you, Capernaum? Will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will go down to Sheol! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
“Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself—cities great and fortified up to the heavens.