Genesis 4:11-17
11And now ayou are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.” 13Cain said to the Lord, “My bpunishment is greater than I can bear. ▼▼Or My guilt is too great to bear
14Behold, dyou have driven me today away from the ground, and efrom your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, fand whoever finds me will kill me.” 15Then the Lord said to him, “Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him gsevenfold.” And the Lord hput a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him. 16Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, ▼▼ Nod means wandering
east of Eden. 17Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
Joshua 6:26
26Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, j“Cursed before the Lord be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho.“At the cost of his firstborn shall he
lay its foundation,
and at the cost of his youngest son
shall he set up its gates.”
1 Kings 16:34
34 kIn his days Hiel of Bethel built lJericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.Jeremiah 22:13-17
13 m“Woe to him who builds his house by nunrighteousness,and his upper rooms by injustice,
owho makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
and does not give him his wages,
14who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
with spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
paneling it with cedar
and ppainting it with vermilion.
15Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and qdo justice and righteousness?
rThen it was well with him.
16 sHe judged the cause of the poor and needy;
tthen it was well.
Is not this uto know me?
declares the Lord.
17But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
vfor shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
Ezekiel 24:9
9Therefore thus says the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city! wI also will make the pile great.Daniel 4:27-31
27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you: break off your sins by xpracticing righteousness, yand your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, zthat there may perhaps be a lengthening of your prosperity.”Nebuchadnezzar’s Humiliation
28All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar. 29At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, 30and the king answered and said, aa“Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by abmy mighty power as a royal residence and for acthe glory of my majesty?” 31 adWhile the words were still in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you,
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