¹⁸ You will think back on the terror you experienced:
    “Where is the officer who counted the plunder, weighed out our taxes, and calculated our defenses?”
¹⁹ You will no longer see rude and arrogant people in charge of the city,
    and you will no longer have to listen to their strange babbling and incomprehensible muttering.
²⁰ Ah, just look at Zion! The city where we celebrate,
    where we make our God-appointed feasts.
You’ll see a Jerusalem at peace, untroubled, undisturbed,
    like a permanent tent with stakes driven deep and ropes that never break.