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Background Information on Babel
According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar (שִׁנְעָר; Σενναάρ). There they agree to build a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Yahweh, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world.
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Hymns Recommended by Experts
The word-pictures in this traditional Christmas hymn describe what the angels saw the night Christ was born: “angels bending” near the “weary earth,” “o’er its Babel sounds” and “two thousand years of wrong.” Yet they came singing of peace.
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Though Babel is not mentioned in Psalm 12, this setting speaks of boastful tongues that connect Babel surely part of the building of Babel. The 4 short stanzas ask God to stop the “lying lips that falsely flatter” and “with Babel sounds oppressing” devise “schemes that fuel the greedy.
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The four stanzas contrast the unity we find in Christ with the struggles that come “when Babel tongues confound us or differences divide.” The word “One” starts off each stanza: “One people…, one gospel” (st. 1); “One teacher calls disciples” (st. 2); “One world invites our nurture” (st. 3), and “One Spirit sends us onward” (St. 4).
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