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17 Your eyes will see the king in his ·beauty [splendor].
    You will see the land that stretches far away.
18 ·You [L Your heart] will ·think about the terror of the past [L meditate on terror]:
    “Where is that ·officer [scribe; taxation officer; L counter]?
    Where is the ·one who collected the taxes [L weigher]?
    Where is the ·officer in charge of our defense towers [one who counts the towers; C for taxation purposes]?”
19 No longer will you see those ·proud [defiant; or fierce; or barbaric] people,
    whose ·strange [obscure] ·language [speech; lip] you don’t know [C the Assyrians].
whose stammering ·speech [tongue] you cannot understand.

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