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23 (A)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.
(B)With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
    and (C)lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
    (D)those who wait for me (E)shall not be put to shame.”

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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 that you may nurse and be satisfied
    from her consoling breast;
that you may drink deeply with delight
    from her glorious abundance.”[a]
12 For thus says the Lord:
(A)“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
    and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and (B)you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip,
    and bounced upon her knees.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 66:11 Or breast

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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