Isaiah 33:18

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“Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?””

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BSBPD

“Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where <FI>is<Fi> he who is counting? Where <FI>is<Fi> he who is weighing? Where <FI>is<Fi> he who is counting the towers?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 33:18 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 23:16Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
  2. 1 Samuel 25:33Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.
  3. 1 Samuel 30:6And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
  4. 2 Kings 15:19Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.
  5. 2 Kings 18:14So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
  6. 2 Kings 18:31Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,
  7. Psalms 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion, for You have seen my affliction; You have known the anguish of my soul.
  8. Psalms 31:22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
  9. Psalms 71:20Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
  10. Isaiah 10:16Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.
  11. Isaiah 17:14In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us.
  12. Isaiah 38:9This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
  13. 1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
  14. 2 Corinthians 1:8We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
  15. 2 Timothy 3:11my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

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