18. Your heart shall meditate the terror. Where is the scribe? where is the one who weighs? where is he that counts the towers?
19. You shall not see a fierce people, a people of a more obscure speech than you can perceive; of a stammering tongue, that you can not understand.
20. Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, neither shall any of its cords be broken.
21. But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall majestic ships pass by.
22. For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
23. Your tackle are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great plunder divided; the lame take the prey.
24. And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell in it shall be forgiven their iniquity.