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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 still noon of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the residue of my years.
¹¹I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. I shall not behold man longer with the inhabitants of the world.
¹²Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled off like a weaver my life; from the thrum he cutteth me off; from day to night wilt thou make an end of me.
¹³I kept still till morning: as a lion he breaketh all my bones; from day to night he will make an end of me.
¹⁴Like a swallow, a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed [with looking] upward. Jehovah, I am oppressed: undertake for me.
¹⁵What shall I say? He hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.
¹⁶Lord, by these things [men] live, and wholly in them [is] the life of my spirit; and thou recoverest me and makest me to live.
¹⁷Behold, for peace I had bitterness on 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 Sheol doth not 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—to save me! My song too we will sing to 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.
²²Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah? (Isa. 38:9‑22)

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1 Sam. 25:33‑36• ³³And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
³⁴For in very deed, as Jehovah God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light a single soul.
³⁵So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine 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 spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in Jehovah his God. (1 Sam. 30:6)

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Psa. 31:7‑8,22• ⁷I will exult and rejoice in thy mercy,{HR}Thou who hast seen my affliction;{HR}Thou hast known my soul in distresses.
⁸And thou hast not delivered me up into the hand of the enemy;{HR}Thou hast made my feet to stand in the wide place.
²²As for me, I said in my baste, I have been cut off from before thine eyes;{HR}Surely thou hast heard the voice of my supplication when I cried for help unto thee. (Psa. 31:7‑8,22)

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Psa. 71:20• ²⁰Thou who hast made us see many distresses and evils,{HR}Wilt turn and make us live,{HR}And from the depths of the earth wilt turn and bring us up. (Psa. 71:20)

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2 Cor. 1:8‑10• ⁸For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation that came to pass d in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond power, so as for us to despair even of our living.
⁹But we ourselves have had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God that raiseth the dead,
¹⁰who delivered us from so great a death, and doth e deliver, in whom we have hope that he will also yet deliver, (2 Cor. 1:8‑10)

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

Where is the scribe.

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

receiver.

Heb. weigher.

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

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2 Kings 15:19• ¹⁹And Pul 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 offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto 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 standard-bearer fainteth.
¹⁹And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, yea, a child may 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?

W. Kelly Translation

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Thy heart shall muse on the terror: where [is] he that counted, where [is] he that weighed [the tribute]? where [is] he that counted the towers?