🕊️WEB · Isaiah 33:19

What does Isaiah 33:19 mean?

"You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand."

— Isaiah 33:19 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

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Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.

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Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

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You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can’t comprehend, with a strange language that you can’t understand.

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Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

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But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of wide rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there.

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For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

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