¹⁸ Your heart will think about the past terrors.
You will think, “Where is the one who took the inventory?^[a]
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.
²⁰ Look at Zion, the city where we hold our festivals.
You will see Jerusalem as a peaceful place,
as a tent that cannot be removed.
Its stakes will never be pulled up.
Its ropes will never be broken.