ISA 33:18 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Your heart will recall the terror.
⇔ “Where’s the taxation accountant? Where’s the one doing the weighing?
⇔ ≈ Where’s the one who counted the towers?”

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX ἡ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν μελετήσει φόβον· ποῦ εἰσιν οἱ γραμματικοί; ποῦ εἰσιν οἱ συμβουλεύοντες; ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ ἀριθμῶν τοὺς τρεφομένους
(haʸ psuⱪaʸ haʸmōn meletaʸsei fobon; pou eisin hoi grammatikoi; pou eisin hoi sumbouleuontes; pou estin ho arithmōn tous trefomenous)

BrTr Your soul shall meditate terror. Where are the scribes? where are the counsellors, where is he that numbers them that are growing up,

ULT Your heart will meditate on terror:
⇔ “Where is the one counting? Where is the one weighing?
⇔ Where is the one counting towers?”

UST You will think about when the enemy terrified you and you will say,
⇔ “The Assyrian officers who gathered their soldiers are gone! The Assyrian officials who collected tribute from us are gone!
⇔ The Assyrian officers who built siege towers against us are gone!”

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

MSB (Same as BSB above)

OEB No OEB ISA book available

WEBBE Your heart will meditate on the terror.
⇔ Where is he who counted?
⇔ Where is he who weighed?
⇔ Where is he who counted the towers?

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Your mind will recall the terror you experienced,
⇔ and you will ask yourselves, “Where is the scribe?
⇔ Where is the one who weighs the money?
⇔ Where is the one who counts the towers?”

LSV Your heart meditates [on] terror,
Where [is] he who is counting? Where [is] he who is weighing? Where [is] he who is counting the towers?

FBV In your mind you will think about the terrifying things that were expected, and then ask yourself, “Where are the enemy officials—the scribes who were to record events, the treasurers who were to weigh the looted money, the surveyors who were to count and destroy the towers?”[fn]

33:18 This verse has been expanded to supply clarity to what seems to be the intended meaning—that the Assyrian officials who had been brought in expectation of a victory over Jerusalem have all disappeared.

T4T When you see that, you will think about when you were previously terrified,
⇔ and you will say, “The officers of Assyria who counted the tax money that we were forced to pay to them have disappeared [RHQ]!
⇔ Those men who counted our towers are gone [RHQ]!

LEB • Your mind[fn] will meditate on the terror:
• “Where is the one who counted?
• Where is the one who weighed out?
• Where is the one who counted the towers?”

33:? Literally “heart”

BBE Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?

Moff No Moff ISA book available

JPS Thy heart shall muse on the terror: 'Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed? Where is he that counted the towers?'

ASV 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?

DRA Thy heart shall meditate fear: where is the learned? where is he that pondereth the words of the law? where is the teacher of little ones?

YLT Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where [is] he who is counting? Where [is] he who is weighing? Where [is] he who is counting the towers?

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

RV Thine 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?

SLT Thy heart shall meditate terror. Where the scribe? where the weigher? where he writing the towers?

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

KJB-1769 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?[fn]

33.18 receiver: Heb. weigher?

KJB-1611 [fn]Thine heart shall meditate terrour; Where is the scribe? where is the receiuer? where is he that counted the towres?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

33:18 Heb. weigher.

Bshps Thine heart studied for feare thinking thus: What shall then become of the scribe? of the receauer of our money? what of hym that taxed our fairest houses?
(Thine heart studied for fear thinking thus: What shall then become of the scribe? of the receiver of our money? what of him that taxed our fairest houses?)

Gnva Thine heart shall meditate feare, Where is the scribe? where is the receiuer? where is hee that counted the towres?
(Thine heart shall meditate fear, Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?)

Cvdl and his herte shal delite in the feare of God. What shal then become of the scrybe? of the Senatoure? what of him that teacheth childre?
(and his heart shall delight in the fear of God. What shall then become of the scribe? of the Senatore? what of him that teacheth/teaches childre?)

Wycl Eliachym, thin herte schal bithenke drede; where is the lettrid man? Where is he that weieth the wordis of the lawe? where is the techere of litle children?
(Eliachym, thin heart shall bithenke dread; where is the lettrid man? Where is he that weieth the words of the law? where is the teacher of little children?)

Luth daß sich dein Herz sehr verwundern wird und sagen: Wo sind nun die Schriftgelehrten? Wo sind die Räte? Wo sind die Kanzler?
(that itself/yourself/themselves your(s) heart very surprise(v) becomes and say: Where are now the scribes? Where are the councils? Where are the Kanzler?)

ClVg Cor tuum meditabitur timorem: ubi est litteratus? ubi legis verba ponderans? ubi doctor parvulorum?
(Heart your(sg) meditabitur fear: where it_is literate/learned? where law words weightsns? where doctor of_children?)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes

לִבְּ⁠ךָ֖ יֶהְגֶּ֣ה אֵימָ֑ה אַיֵּ֤ה סֹפֵר֙ אַיֵּ֣ה שֹׁקֵ֔ל אַיֵּ֖ה סֹפֵ֥ר אֶת־הַ⁠מִּגְדָּלִֽים

heart_of,your meditate terror where counted where weighed_the_tribute where counted DOM the,towers

If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: [Your heart will meditate on terror, thinking about the location of the one counting, and the location of the one weighing, and the location of the one counting.]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

לִבְּ⁠ךָ֖ יֶהְגֶּ֣ה

heart_of,your meditate

Isaiah is speaking as if a person’s thoughts were located in his heart. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [Your thoughts will focus]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

אֵימָ֑ה

terror

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of terror, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [on terrifying things]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

אַיֵּ֣ה שֹׁקֵ֔ל

where weighed_the_tribute

Isaiah is using the question form to emphasize that the oppressor who once weighed tribute is now gone. If a speaker of your language would not use the question form for that purpose, you could translate this as a statement or as an exclamation. Alternate translation: [The one weighing is no longer there.]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

אַיֵּ֤ה סֹפֵר֙ אַיֵּ֣ה שֹׁקֵ֔ל אַיֵּ֖ה סֹפֵ֥ר אֶת־הַ⁠מִּגְדָּלִֽים

where counted where weighed_the_tribute where counted DOM the,towers

Isaiah is using the question form to emphasize that the enemy officer who once counted towers is now gone. If a speaker of your language would not use the question form for that purpose, you could translate this as a statement or as an exclamation. Alternate translation: [The one counting is gone! The one weighing is gone! The one counting towers is gone!]

Parallel ISA 33:18