^11 (A)The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth.

^21 (A)whose leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which beasts of the field found shade, and in whose branches the birds of the heavens lived— ^22 (B)it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. ^(C)Your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, ^(D)and your dominion to the ends of the earth.

Not Because of Righteousness

9 “Hear, O Israel: you are ^(A)to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations ^(B)greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

²³ And you, ^(A)Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to ^(B)Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower ^(A)with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”