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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

18 In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror:(A)
    “Where is that chief officer?
Where is the one who took the revenue?
    Where is the officer in charge of the towers?(B)
19 You will see those arrogant people(C) no more,
    people whose speech is obscure,
    whose language is strange and incomprehensible.(D)

20 Look on Zion,(E) the city of our festivals;
    your eyes will see Jerusalem,
    a peaceful abode,(F) a tent(G) that will not be moved;(H)
its stakes will never be pulled up,
    nor any of its ropes broken.

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