B is for Babel

Babel

(Genesis 11:1-9)

Once upon a time and long before yesteryear

Men spoke one language and all could hear

What anyone might say from any single place

One speech was given to serve the human race

But there came a time when men traveled east

And they settled in Shinar both men and beast

This new land became heart and hearth to them

And it was far better than where they had been

One day they said to all, let’s build us a city

So they enlisted builder, bricklayer and smitty

With a plan they chose to build to heaven high

A tower that reached above the ground into the sky

And with bricks baked through and brick for stone

Asphalt for mortar they made their plans well known

To succeed in this great scheme would seal their worth

A guarantee they wouldn’t be scattered about the earth

But so often to great men with their dreams and plan

They forget they are nothing more than mortal man

It happened that the Lord came down one day to see

The city and tower being built with such ingenuity

The Lord observed first hand all that they had done

He took note of the fact that these people were one

With one language to help them complete their scheme

Nothing could stop them for accomplishing this dream

And so the Lord said to all the members of the Trinity

Let us go down and inject the powers of our Divinity

We will confuse their language and all of their speech

Scattered and confused will stop their wicked reach

The Lord scattered them all over the face of this earth

Now all men speak different languages from their birth

The building of this city came to a halt that fateful hour

When God stopped the work on Babel’s brick tower