⁴ They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

²⁸ Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

¹ Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

⁴⁴ How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

⁵¹ He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.

³⁰ The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

²² it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

¹¹ The tree grew, and was strong, and the height of it reached to the sky, and the sight of it to the end of all the earth.

⁷ The memory of the righteous is blessed, But the name of the wicked will rot.

⁹ For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, For, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evil-doers will be scattered.

¹¹ Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, And their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

¹² But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

¹³ This is the destiny of those who are foolish, And of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

¹³ David got him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.

²⁷ Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away.

⁸ So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

⁹ Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

⁴ The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.