¹ Kogu maailmas oli aga üks keel ja ühesugused sõnad.

² Ja sündis, kui nad hommiku poolt teele läksid, et nad Sinearimaal leidsid oru ja jäid sinna elama.

³ Nad ütlesid üksteisele: 'Tehkem nüüd telliskive ja põletagem neid hästi.' Siis olid telliskivid neile ehituskivideks ja maapigi oli sideaineks.

⁴ Ja nad ütlesid: 'Tulge, ehitagem enestele linn ja torn, mille tipp oleks taevas, ja tehkem enestele nimi, et me ei hajuks üle kogu maailma!'

⁵ Aga Issand tuli alla vaatama linna ja torni, mida inimlapsed ehitasid.

⁶ Ja Issand ütles: 'Vaata, rahvas on üks ja neil kõigil on üks keel, ja see on alles nende tegude algus. Nüüd ei ole neil võimatu ükski asi, mida nad kavatsevad teha!

⁷ Mingem nüüd alla ja segagem seal nende keel, et nad üksteise keelt ei mõistaks!'

⁸ Ja Issand pillutas nad sealt üle kogu maailma ja nad jätsid linna ehitamata.

⁹ Seepärast pandi sellele nimeks Paabel, sest seal segas Issand ära kogu maailma keele ja sealt pillutas Issand nad üle kogu maailma.

¹⁰ Need olid Seemi järeltulijad: kui Seem oli sada aastat vana, siis sündis temale Arpaksad kaks aastat pärast veeuputust.

¹¹ Ja Seem elas pärast Arpaksadi sündimist viissada aastat, ja temale sündis poegi ja tütreid.

¹² Kui Arpaksad oli elanud kolmkümmend viis aastat, siis sündis temale Selah.

¹³ Ja Arpaksad elas pärast Selahi sündimist nelisada kolm aastat, ja temale sündis poegi ja tütreid.

¹⁴ Kui Selah oli elanud kolmkümmend aastat, siis sündis temale Eeber.

¹⁵ Ja Selah elas pärast Eeberi sündimist nelisada kolm aastat, ja temale sündis poegi ja tütreid.

¹⁶ Kui Eeber oli elanud kolmkümmend neli aastat, siis sündis temale Peleg.

¹⁷ Ja Eeber elas pärast Pelegi sündimist nelisada kolmkümmend aastat, ja temale sündis poegi ja tütreid.

¹⁸ Kui Peleg oli elanud kolmkümmend aastat, siis sündis temale Reu.

¹⁹ Ja Peleg elas pärast Reu sündimist kakssada üheksa aastat, ja temale sündis poegi ja tütreid.

²⁰ Kui Reu oli elanud kolmkümmend kaks aastat, siis sündis temale Serug.

²¹ Ja Reu elas pärast Serugi sündimist kakssada seitse aastat, ja temale sündis poegi ja tütreid.

²² Kui Serug oli elanud kolmkümmend aastat, siis sündis temale Naahor.

²³ Ja Serug elas pärast Naahori sündimist kakssada aastat, ja temale sündis poegi ja tütreid.

²⁴ Kui Naahor oli elanud kakskümmend üheksa aastat, siis sündis temale Terah.

²⁵ Ja Naahor elas pärast Terahi sündimist sada üheksateist aastat, ja temale sündis poegi ja tütreid.

²⁶ Kui Terah oli elanud seitsekümmend aastat, siis sündisid temale Aabram, Naahor ja Haaran.

²⁷ Ja need olid Terahi järeltulijad: Terahile sündisid Aabram, Naahor ja Haaran; ja Haaranile sündis Lott.

²⁸ Aga Haaran suri enne kui ta isa Terah oma sünnimaal Kaldea Uuris.

²⁹ Ja Aabram ja Naahor võtsid enestele naised; Aabrami naise nimi oli Saarai ja Naahori naise nimi oli Milka, Haarani tütar; Haaran oli Milka ja Jiska isa.

³⁰ Aga Saarai oli viljatu, temal ei olnud last.

³¹ Ja Terah võttis oma poja Aabrami ja Haarani poja Loti, oma pojapoja, ja Saarai, oma minia, oma poja Aabrami naise, ja lahkus koos nendega Kaldea Uurist, et minna Kaananimaale; ja nad jõudsid Haaranini ning jäid sinna elama.

³² Ja Terahi elupäevi oli kakssada viis aastat, ja Terah suri Haaranis.

¹ For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

² The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

³ It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

⁴ that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!"

⁵ Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

⁶ who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

⁷ The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.

⁸ Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us."

⁹ Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

¹⁰ They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?"

¹¹ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

¹² How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

¹³ You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!"

¹⁵ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

¹⁶ Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

¹⁷ who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"

¹⁸ All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

¹⁹ But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

²⁰ You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.

²¹ Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

²² "I will rise up against them," says Yahweh of Armies, "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son," says Yahweh.

²³ "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says Yahweh of Armies.

²⁴ Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

²⁵ that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

²⁶ This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

²⁷ For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"

²⁸ This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.

²⁹ Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

³⁰ The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

³¹ Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

³² What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.