Why should you be as a man confused, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; leave us not.

They were disappointed because they had confidence; they came there, and were confused.

Destroy, O Lord, and confuse their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confuse the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.