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17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty;
    they will see a distant land.[a]
18 Your mind[b] will meditate on the terror:
    “Where is the one who counted?
Where is the one who weighed out?
    Where is the one who counted the towers?”
19 You will not see the insolent people,
    the people whose language is too obscure to understand,[c]
        whose stammering of tongue cannot be understood.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 33:17 Literally “land of distance”
  2. Isaiah 33:18 Literally “heart”
  3. Isaiah 33:19 Literally “obscure of lip than to hear”
  4. Isaiah 33:19 Literally “there is no understanding”