That is why it was called Babel[a](A)—because there the Lord confused the language(B) of the whole world.(C) From there the Lord scattered(D) them over the face of the whole earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:9 That is, Babylon; Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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Therefore its name is called [a]Babel, (A)because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:9 Lit. Confusion, Babylon

13 Although the peoples roar(A) like the roar of surging waters,
    when he rebukes(B) them they flee(C) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff(D) on the hills,
    like tumbleweed before a gale.(E)

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13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

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13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
But God will (A)rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And (B)be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

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15 They flee(A) from the sword,(B)
    from the drawn sword,
from the bent bow
    and from the heat of battle.

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15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

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15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword,
From the bent bow, and from the distress of war.

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All your leaders have fled(A) together;
    they have been captured(B) without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
    having fled while the enemy was still far away.

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All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

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All your rulers have fled together;
They are captured by the archers.
All who are found in you are bound together;
They have fled from afar.

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At the uproar of your army,(A) the peoples flee;(B)
    when you rise up,(C) the nations scatter.

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At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.

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At the noise of the tumult the people (A)shall flee;
When You lift Yourself up, the nations shall be scattered;

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“In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “the king and the officials will lose heart,(A)
the priests will be horrified,
    and the prophets will be appalled.”(B)

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And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

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“And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord,
That the heart of the king shall perish,
And the heart of the princes;
The priests shall be astonished,
And the prophets shall wonder.”

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