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17 Your eyes will see the King[a] in his splendor.
They will see a land that stretches far and wide.
18 Your heart will think about the past terrors.
You will think, “Where is the one who took the inventory?[b]
Where is the one who weighed the silver?
Where is the one who counted the towers?”
19 You will no longer see a barbaric people,
a people with unintelligible speech, which you cannot understand,
a people who babble in a language that makes no sense.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 33:17 Or the king
  2. Isaiah 33:18 The verse apparently refers to the actions of the enemy officers as they plundered Jerusalem.