¹ Dies ist das Geschlecht der Kinder Noahs: Sem, Ham, Japheth. Und sie zeugten Kinder nach der Sintflut.

² Die Kinder Japheths sind diese: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Thubal, Mesech und Thiras.

³ Aber die Kinder von Gomer sind diese: Askenas, Riphath und Thorgama.

⁴ Die Kinder von Javan sind diese: Elisa, Tharsis, die Chittiter und die Dodaniter.

⁵ Von diesen sind ausgebreitet die Inseln der Heiden in ihren Ländern, jegliche nach ihren Sprachen, Geschlechtern und Leuten.

⁶ Die Kinder von Ham sind diese: Chus, Mizraim, Put und Kanaan.

⁷ Aber die Kinder von Chus sind diese: Seba, Hevila, Sabtha, Ragma und Sabthecha. Aber die Kinder von Ragma sind diese: Saba und Dedan.

⁸ Chus aber zeugte den Nimrod. Der fing an ein gewaltiger Herr zu sein auf Erden,

⁹ und war ein gewaltiger Jäger vor dem HERRN. Daher spricht man: Das ist ein gewaltiger Jäger vor dem HERRN wie Nimrod.

¹⁰ Und der Anfang seines Reiches war Babel, Erech, Akkad und Chalne im Lande Sinear.

¹¹ Von dem Land ist er gekommen nach Assur und baute Ninive und Rehoboth-Ir und Kalah,

¹² dazu Resen zwischen Ninive und Kalah. Dies ist die große Stadt.

¹³ Mizraim zeugte die Luditer, die Anamiter, die Lehabiter, die Naphthuhiter,

¹⁴ die Pathrusiter und die Kasluhiter (von dannen sind gekommen die Philister) und die Kaphthoriter.

¹⁵ Kanaan aber zeugte Sidon, seinen ersten Sohn, und Heth,

¹⁶ den Jebusiter, den Amoriter, den Girgasiter,

¹⁷ den Heviter, den Arkiter, den Siniter,

¹⁸ den Arvaditer, den Zemariter und den Hamathiter. Daher sind ausgebreitet die Geschlechter der Kanaaniter.

¹⁹ Und ihre Grenzen waren von Sidon an durch Gerar bis gen Gaza, bis man kommt gen Sodom, Gomorra, Adama, Zeboim und bis gen Lasa.

²⁰ Das sind die Kinder Hams in ihren Geschlechtern, Sprachen und Leuten.

²¹ Sem aber, Japheths, des Ältern, Bruder, zeugte auch Kinder, der ein Vater ist aller Kinder von Eber.

²² Und dies sind seine Kinder: Elam, Assur, Arphachsad, Lud und Aram.

²³ Die Kinder von Aram sind diese: Uz, Hul, Gether und Mas.

²⁴ Arphachsad aber zeugte Salah, Salah zeugte Eber.

²⁵ Eber zeugte zwei Söhne. Einer hieß Peleg, darum daß zu seiner Zeit die Welt zerteilt ward; des Bruder hieß Joktan.

²⁶ Und Joktan zeugte Almodad, Saleph, Hazarmaveth, Jarah,

²⁷ Hadoram, Usal, Dikla,

²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Saba,

²⁹ Ophir, Hevila und Jobab. Das sind die Kinder von Joktan.

³⁰ Und ihre Wohnung war von Mesa an, bis man kommt gen Sephar, an den Berg gegen Morgen.

³¹ Das sind die Kinder von Sem in ihren Geschlechtern, Sprachen, Ländern und Leuten.

³² Das sind die Nachkommen der Kinder Noahs in ihren Geschlechtern und Leuten. Von denen sind ausgebreitet die Leute auf Erden nach der Sintflut.

¹ "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights-- I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

² He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.

³ He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

⁴ He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law."

⁵ Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

⁶ "I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;

⁷ to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

⁸ "I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

⁹ Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up."

¹⁰ Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.

¹¹ Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!

¹² Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.

¹³ Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.

¹⁴ "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

¹⁵ I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

¹⁶ I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

¹⁷ "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

¹⁸ "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

¹⁹ Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh's servant?

²⁰ You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.

²¹ It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

²² But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!'

²³ Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

²⁴ Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

²⁵ Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he didn't know; and it burned him, but he didn't take it to heart."