Babel Songtext
von Igor Stravinsky

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that
They found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make
Brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had
Brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower
Whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name
Lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth


And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the
Children of men builded: and the LORD said, Behold, the people
Is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do
And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have
Begun to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their
Language, that they may not understand one another′s speech
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the
Face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city

Therefore is the name of the city 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