¹⁷ Your eyes will see the King^[a] in his splendor.
They will see a land that stretches far and wide.
¹⁸ Your heart will think about the past terrors.
You will think, “Where is the one who took the inventory?^[b]
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.
²¹ There the Lord will be with us in majesty,
as in a place with wide rivers and streams,
where no enemy warship can row,
where no sailing ship can slip past.
²² Because the Lord is our judge,
the Lord is our lawgiver,
and the Lord is our king,
he is the one who will save us.

²³ Your rigging hangs loose.
The mast is not steady.
The sail is not set.^[c]

When they divide all the plunder,
there will be so much that even the crippled will take part.
²⁴ No one who lives there will say, “I am sick.”
The guilt of the people who live there will be forgiven.