Isaiah 33:18
Good News Translation
Your old fears of foreign tax collectors and spies will be only a memory.

New Revised Standard Version
Your mind will muse on the terror: “Where is the one who counted? Where is the one who weighed the tribute? Where is the one who counted the towers?”

Contemporary English Version
Then you will ask yourself, "Where are those officials who terrified us and forced us to pay such heavy taxes?"

New American Bible
Your mind will dwell on the terror: “Where is the one who counted, where the one who weighed? Where the one who counted the towers?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy heart shall meditate fear: where is the learned? where is he that pondered the words of the law? where is the teacher of little ones?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thy heart shall meditate fear: where is the learned? where is he that pondered the words of the law? where is the teacher of little ones?

heart

Isaiah 38:9 The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.

1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly afflicted: for the people had a mind to stone him, for the soul of every man was bitterly grieved for his sons and daughters: but David took courage in the Lord his God.

Psalm 31:7,8,22 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses. . . .

Psalm 71:20 How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life. . . .

2 Timothy 3:11 Persecutions, afflictions: such as came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra: what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me.

where is the scribe

1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

receiver.

Genesis 23:16 And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.

2 Kings 15:19 And Phul, king of the Assyrians, came into the land, and Manahem gave Phul a thousand talents of silver to aid him and to establish him in the kingdom.

2 Kings 18:14,31 Then Ezechias, king of Juda, sent messengers to the king of the Assyrians, to Lachis, saying: I have offended, depart from me: and all that thou shalt put upon me, I will bear. And the king of the Assyrians put a tax upon Ezechias, king of Juda, of three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold. . . .

where is he

Isaiah 10:16-19 Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a burning, as it were the burning of a fire. . . .

Context
The LORD is Exalted
17His eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall see the land far off. 18Thy heart shall meditate fear: where is the learned? where is he that pondered the words of the law? where is the teacher of little ones?19The shameless people thou shalt not see, the people of profound speech: so that thou canst not understand the eloquence of his tongue, in whom there is no wisdom.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Isaiah 17:14
In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble: the morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the portion of them that have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiled us.

Isaiah 54:14
And thou shalt be founded in justice: depart far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near thee.

Isaiah 33:17
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