Genesis 11:8

Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’ ”

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

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

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed among the nations.

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.

Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.

Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, according to their nations. The nations divided from these in the earth after the flood.

Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand? Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

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

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,

As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

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

Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:

Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.”

Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their pasture lands.

All the cities of the Levites among the possessions of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.

Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.

At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah settled in Benjamin’s territory.

to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):

I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.

For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.

The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.

A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people didn’t exist. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.

The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.

The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

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

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?”

“You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”

It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

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

However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.