Bible verse
Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”
Isaiah 33:18 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 33.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”
15 He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
16 he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.
17 Your eyes will see the King in His beauty and behold a land that stretches afar.
18 Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”
19 You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
21 But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.
22 For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
KJV
Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where [is] the scribe? where [is] the receiver? where [is] he that counted the towers?
ASV
Thy heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed the tribute? where is he that counted the towers?
ERV
Thine heart shall muse on the terror: where is he that counted, where is he that weighed the tribute? where is he that counted the towers?
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