¹⁷ Your eyes will behold ^(A)the King in His beauty;
They will see ^(B)a far-distant land.
¹⁸ Your heart will meditate on ^(C)terror:
“Where is ^(D)he who counts?
Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?”
¹⁹ You will no longer see a fierce people,
A people of ^[a](E)unintelligible speech ^[b]which no one comprehends,
Of a stammering tongue ^[c]which no one understands.
^20 (F)Behold Zion, the city of our appointed times;
Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an ^(G)abode at ease,
^(H)A tent which will not be folded;
Its stakes will never be pulled up,
Nor any of its cords ever be torn apart.
²¹ But there the Mighty One, Yahweh, will be for us
A place of ^(I)rivers and wide canals
On which no boat with oars will go,
And on which no mighty ship will pass—
²² For Yahweh is our ^(J)judge,
Yahweh is ^(K)our lawgiver,
Yahweh is ^(L)our king;
^(M)He will save us—
²³ Your cords hang slack;
They cannot hold the base of their mast firmly,
Nor spread out the sail.
Then the ^(N)prey of an abundant spoil will be divided;
^(O)The lame will take the plunder.
²⁴ And no one who dwells there will say, “I am ^(P)sick”;
The people who inhabit ^[d]there will be ^(Q)forgiven their iniquity.