23 Kings will be your guardians
and their queens[a] your nursing mothers.(A)
They will bow down to you
with their faces to the ground
and lick the dust at your feet.(B)
Then you will know that I am the Lord;(C)
those who put their hope in me
will not be put to shame.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 49:23 Lit princesses

23 Kings(A) will be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.(B)
They will bow down(C) before you with their faces to the ground;
    they will lick the dust(D) at your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;(E)
    those who hope(F) in me will not be disappointed.(G)

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11 so that you may nurse and be satisfied
from her comforting breast
and drink deeply and delight yourselves
from her glorious breasts.

12 For this is what the Lord says:

I will make peace flow to her like a river,(A)
and the wealth[a] of nations like a flood;(B)
you will nurse and be carried on her hip(C)
and bounced on her lap.

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  1. 66:12 Or glory

11 For you will nurse(A) and be satisfied
    at her comforting breasts;(B)
you will drink deeply
    and delight in her overflowing abundance.”(C)

12 For this is what the Lord says:

“I will extend peace(D) to her like a river,(E)
    and the wealth(F) of nations like a flooding stream;
you will nurse and be carried(G) on her arm
    and dandled on her knees.

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