Isaiah 49:23

Kings shall be your foster fathers, 2 and their queens your nursing mothers. 1 They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, 2 and lick the dust of your feet; 1 Then you will know that I am Adonai; 2 and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.” 1

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In The King James Version

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

In Context

22Thus says 'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh], “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, 2 and lift up my banner to the peoples; 1 and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, 2 and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. 1

24Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, 2 or the lawful captives be delivered? 1

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Cross References

Exodus 6:7and I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God; + 6:7. Quoted in 2 Cor 6:16 and you shall know that I am Adonai your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians [people from Abode of slavery].

Psalms 25:3גּ Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. 2 They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause. 1

Psalms 68:31Princes shall come out of Egypt [Abode of slavery]. 2 Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:19-24

Encouragement to Zion. ( b. c. 706.) 18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord , thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth. 19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. 20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost… Read the whole commentary →

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