17  Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty;

they will see a land that stretches afar.

18  Your heart will muse on the terror:

“Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute?

Where is he who counted the towers?”

19  You will see no more the insolent people,

the ^bpeople of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend,

stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.

20  Behold Zion, the city of our ^cappointed feasts!

Your eyes will see Jerusalem,

an untroubled habitation, an immovable ^dtent,

whose stakes will never be plucked up,

nor will any of its cords be broken.

21  But there the Lord in majesty will be for us

a place of broad rivers and streams,

where no galley with oars can go,

nor majestic ship can pass.

22  For ^ethe Lord is our judge; the Lord is our lawgiver;

^fthe Lord is our king; he will save us.