Then Adonai came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of man had built.
Genesis 18:21 - Tree of Life Version I want to go down now, and see if they deserve destruction, as its outcry has come to Me. And if not, I will know.” 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 Adonai came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of man had built.
Come! Let Us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand each other’s language.”
when Adonai said, “Should I keep secret from Abraham what I am about to do,
God saw the earth, and behold it was ruined because all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
There is no gloom and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.
Adonai looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, to bring them up out of that land into a good and large land, a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
Adonai said to Moses, “Say to Bnei-Yisrael, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were going up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Take off your ornaments, so that I may consider what to do to you.’”
Judah’s sin is written with an iron pen and with a point of a diamond, engraved on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of your altars.
I Adonai search the heart, I try the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.
“Rise, go to the great city Nineveh and call out to her, for their evil has risen before me.”
For behold, Adonai is coming forth out of His place. He will come down and trample on the high places of the land.
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men whose spirits have hardened, who say in their hearts, ‘Adonai will do neither good nor evil.’
But He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before the people, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable in God’s sight.”
For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will but the will of the One who sent Me.
and the sign or wonder he spoke to you comes true, while saying, ‘Let’s follow other gods’—that you have not known, and—‘Let’s serve them!’
You are to remember all the way that Adonai your God has led you these 40 years in the wilderness—in order to humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His mitzvot or not.
For the Lord Himself shall come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the blast of God’s shofar, and the dead in Messiah shall rise first.
No creature is hidden from Him, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
“God of gods is Adonai! God of gods is Adonai! He knows, and may Israel itself know! If we acted in rebellion or in treachery against Adonai, don’t spare us this day!