Holy Scripture

Isaiah 33:18

A church father on this verse
“And if you want all these thoughts to diminish in you and not to have power over you, then recite in your heart without ceasing every fruit that is written in the Scriptures, having in yourself the resolution to walk in them, as it is written in Isaiah, "Your heart shall meditate on the fear"of the Lord, and all these…”
Pachomius the Great, 4th c. — LIFE OF PACHOMIUS (SAHIDIC) 4

Source: Septuagint

Original

18Your soul shall meditate terror. Where are the scribes? where are the counselors, where is he that numbers them that are growing up,

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In context

16he shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock: bread shall be given him, and his water shall be sure.

17Ye shall see a king with glory: your eyes shall behold a land from afar.

— Isaiah 33:18 —

19even the small and great people? with whom he took not counsel, neither did he understand a people of deep speech, so that a despised people should not hear, and there is no understanding to him that hears.

20Behold the city Zion, our refuge: thine eyes shall behold Jerusalem, a rich city, tabernacles which shall not be shaken, neither shall the pins of her tabernacle be moved forever, neither shall her cords be at all broken:

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