¹⁷ Your eyes will see the king in his ·beauty [splendor].
    You will see the land that stretches far away.
¹⁸ ·You [^LYour heart] will ·think about the terror of the past [^Lmeditate on terror]:
    “Where is that ·officer [scribe; taxation officer; ^Lcounter]?
    Where is the ·one who collected the taxes [^Lweigher]?
    Where is the ·officer in charge of our defense towers [one who counts the towers; ^Cfor taxation purposes]?”
¹⁹ No longer will you see those ·proud [defiant; or fierce; or barbaric] people,
    whose ·strange [obscure] ·language [speech; lip] you don’t know [^Cthe Assyrians].
whose stammering ·speech [tongue] you cannot understand.