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; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
Daniel 4:11 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional The tree grew great and strong, its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the ends of the whole earth. Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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 us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
Foreigners from the most terrible of the nations have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth went away from its shade and left it.
So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long, from abundant water in its shoots.
And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades. For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan today, to go in and dispossess nations larger and mightier than you, great cities, fortified to the heavens,