Translation
So YHVH (read Adonai) scattered them from there over the face of all the earth and they ceased building the fortified place of terror.
Go to footnote numberParaphrase
So THE ETERNAL AND PERSONAL GOD dispersed the people from that place and sent them all over the entire world, and therefore they ceased building the city.
Footnotes
1: "fortified place of terror":
If you have not seen it already, I suggest you go back to the comment after 11:5 for more about this strange way to say “city.”