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17 “Your eyes will see the king in his elegance,
    and will view a land that stretches afar.
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.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 33:18 Lit. counts
  2. Isaiah 33:19 So 1QIsaa (pl.); MT (sing.)