They said, "Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."

Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other."

They encourage each other in their evil plots; they talk about where they will place their traps. "No one can see them," they say.

Suppose they say, "Come on; let's find someone to kill! Let's attack some innocent people for the fun of it!

I decided to enjoy myself and find out what happiness is. But I found that this is useless, too.

"Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge around it, break down the wall that protects it, and let wild animals eat it and trample it down.

The skilled workers help and encourage each other.

The carpenter says to the goldsmith, 'Well done!' The one who beats the idol smooth encourages the one who nails it together. They say, 'The soldering is good'--- and they fasten the idol in place with nails.

Now listen to me, you that say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to a certain city, where we will stay a year and go into business and make a lot of money."

And now, you rich people, listen to me! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you!

Instead, in order that none of you be deceived by sin and become stubborn, you must help one another every day, as long as the word "Today" in the scripture applies to us.

Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good.

(SEE 1:13)

"Stop giving the people straw for making bricks. Make them go and find it for themselves.

Make them work harder and keep them busy, so that they won't have time to listen to a pack of lies."

He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it, but you must still make the same number of bricks."

The slave drivers kept trying to force them to make the same number of bricks every day as they had made when they were given straw.

Then the foremen went to the king and complained, "Why do you do this to us, Your Majesty?

The king answered, "You are lazy and don't want to work, and that is why you ask me to let you go and offer sacrifices to the LORD.

and put its people to work with saws, iron hoes, and iron axes, and forced them to work at making bricks. He did the same to the people of all the other towns of Ammon. Then he and his men returned to Jerusalem.

"The brick buildings have fallen down, but we will replace them with stone buildings. The beams of sycamore wood have been cut down, but we will replace them with the finest cedar."

They shamelessly keep on making me angry. They offer pagan sacrifices at sacred gardens and burn incense on pagan altars.

Draw water to prepare for a siege, and strengthen your fortresses! Trample the clay to make bricks, and get the brick molds ready!

The valley was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah tried to run away from the battle, they fell into the pits; but the other three kings escaped to the mountains.

But when she could not hide him any longer, she took a basket made of reeds and covered it with tar to make it watertight. She put the baby in it and then placed it in the tall grass at the edge of the river.