and Resen (the great city located between Nineveh and Calah).

Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”

“People from many nations will pass by the ruins of this city and say to one another, ‘Why did the Lord destroy such a great city?’

For the time is surely coming when I will punish this great city and all her idols. Her whole land will be disgraced, and her dead will lie in the streets.

As he looked out across the city, he said, ‘Look at this great city of Babylon! By my own mighty power, I have built this beautiful city as my royal residence to display my majestic splendor.’

But go over to Calneh and see what happened there. Then go to the great city of Hamath and down to the Philistine city of Gath. You are no better than they were, and look at how they were destroyed.

“Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are.”

“Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.”

But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people living in spiritual darkness, not to mention all the animals. Shouldn’t I feel sorry for such a great city?”