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18 Your mind will ponder at that time of terror:
    ‘Where is the king’s accountant?
Where is the one who weighed the revenue?
    Where is the officer who supervises[a] the towers?’
19 No longer will you[b] see those arrogant people,
    those people with their obscure speech you cannot comprehend,
    stammering in a language you cannot understand.

20 “Look at Zion, city of our festivals![c]
    Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
        an undisturbed abode, an immovable tent;
its stakes will never be pulled up,
    nor will any of its ropes be broken.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 33:18 Lit. counts
  2. Isaiah 33:19 So 1QIsaa (pl.); MT (sing.)
  3. Isaiah 33:20 So 1QIsaa MTmss; MT reads our festival