And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, that we not be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.

Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they cannot understand one another's speech.

They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

If they say, Walk with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause,

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore regard pleasure; and this was vanity.

And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down;

They each one helped his neighbor, and said to his brother, Be strong.

So the craftsman encourages the refiner, and he who smooths with the hammer, him who struck the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good. And he makes it steady with nails so that it will not be shaken.

Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, spend a year there, do business, and make a profit;

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your calamities that are coming upon you.

but exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, that not any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,

And they made their lives bitter with hard labor; in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of labor in the field. All their labor in which they made them work was with harshness.

You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Let more labor be laid upon the men, that they may work in it, and let them not regard deceptive words.

Go, get yourselves straw where you can find it; yet none of your labor shall be diminished.

And the taskmasters were pressing upon them saying, Fulfill your work, the matter of each day, as when there was straw.

Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, Why are you dealing thus with your servants?

But he said, You are idle! Idle! Therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.

And he brought out the people who were in it, and put them under saws, iron picks and iron axes, and made them cross over into the brick kiln. Thus he did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will use cedars instead.

a people who continually provoke Me to anger to My face; who sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense on altars of bricks;

Draw your water for the siege. Strengthen your fortifications. Go into the clay and tread in the mortar. Make the mold strong.

Now the Valley of Siddim was pitted with asphalt pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled; some fell there, and the remainder fled to the mountains.

And when she could no longer hide him, she took a vessel of reeds for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river bank.