Holy Scripture
Isaiah 9:10
A church father on this verse
“Whoever offers God his choicest goods is likened to Abel's works, while the one who brings cheap things is likened to the works of Cain or to the one who laughed at his father and went to tell his two brothers, or again to the one who decided to build a tower in the plain of Shinar, forgetting the one who had piloted…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
10And God shall dash down them that rise up against him on Mount Zion, and shall scatter his enemies;
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8And all the people of Ephraim, and they that dwelt in Samaria shall know, who say in their pride and lofty heart,
9The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.
— Isaiah 9:10 —
11even Syria from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is exalted.
12But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.