18 Your heart ponders fear, “Where is the scribe? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”
19 No longer shall you see a fierce people, a people of too deep a lip to hear, of a jabbering tongue no one understands.
20 See Tsiyon, the city of our appointed time; your eyes shall see Yerushalayim, an undisturbed home, a tent not taken down. Its stakes are never removed, nor any of its cords broken.
21 But there, great is יהוה for us; a place of broad rivers, streams, in which no boat with oars sails, nor big ships pass by –
22 for יהוה is our Judge, יהוה is our Lawgiver, יהוה is our Sovereign, He saves us –
23 your ropes shall be slack, they do not strengthen their mast, they shall not spread the sail. Then the prey of great plunder shall be divided, the lame shall take the prey.
24 Neither shall the inhabitant say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell in it is forgiven their crookedness!