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Isa. 33:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the γreceiver? where is he that counted the towers?

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weigher.

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Isa. 38:9‑22• ⁹The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
¹⁰I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.
¹¹I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.
¹²Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum:--from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
¹³I kept still until the morning; … as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
¹⁴Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed with looking upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
¹⁵What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
¹⁶Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit; and thou hast recovered me, and made me to live.
¹⁷Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
¹⁸For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.
¹⁹The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
²⁰Jehovah was purposed to save me.--And we will play upon my stringed instruments all the days of our life, in the house of Jehovah.
²¹Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
²²And Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up into the house of Jehovah? (Isa. 38:9‑22)

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1 Sam. 25:33‑36• ³³And blessed be thy discernment, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
³⁴But indeed, as Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, who has restrained me from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any male.
³⁵So David received of her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
³⁶And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. (1 Sam. 25:33‑36)

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1 Sam. 30:6• ⁶And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him; for the soul of all the people was embittered, every man because of his sons and because of his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Jehovah his God. (1 Sam. 30:6)

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Psa. 31:7‑8,22• ⁷I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou hast seen mine affliction; thou hast known the troubles of my soul,
⁸And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.
²²As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. (Psa. 31:7‑8,22)

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Psa. 71:20• ²⁰Thou, who hast shewn us many and sore troubles, wilt revive us again, and wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth; (Psa. 71:20)

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2 Cor. 1:8‑10• ⁸For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened to us in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond our power, so as to despair even of living.
⁹But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
¹⁰who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver; (2 Cor. 1:8‑10)

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2 Tim. 3:11• ¹¹persecutions, sufferings: what sufferings happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured; and the Lord delivered me out of all. (2 Tim. 3:11)

Where is the scribe.

1 Cor. 1:20• ²⁰Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? (1 Cor. 1:20)

receiver.

Heb. weigher.

Gen. 23:16• ¹⁶And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the money that he had named in the ears of the sons of Heth--four hundred shekels of silver, current with the merchant. (Gen. 23:16)

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2 Kings 15:19• ¹⁹Pul the king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to establish the kingdom in his hand. (2 Kings 15:19)

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2 Kings 18:14,31• ¹⁴And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have sinned; retire from me: I will bear what thou layest upon me. And the king of Assyria laid upon Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
³¹Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peace with me, and come out to me; and eat every one of his vine and every one of his fig-tree, and drink every one the waters of his own cistern; (2 Kings 18:14,31)

where is he.

Isa. 10:16‑19• ¹⁶Therefore shall the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness, and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire:
¹⁷and the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briars in one day,
¹⁸and it shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a sick man fainteth.
¹⁹And the remainder of the trees of his forest shall be few: yea, a child might write them. (Isa. 10:16‑19)

• {v.18-19} The fierce people will have disappeared and they will meditate upon the terror that once held sway, when their resources had to be counted and weighed. (“Isaiah 33” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thy heart shall meditate on terror: Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?