Isaiah 49:23

Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursemaids; 1 they will bow down to you with their faces to the earth and lick the dust of your feet; 1 and you will know that I am Yahweh; those who wait for me will not be put to shame.” 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

22This is what the Lord Yahweh says, 1 “Look, I will raise my hand to the nations; I will raise my signal flag to the peoples. 1 They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders. 1

24Can the spoils be taken from the warrior, or captives be rescued from the fierce? + 49:24 Instead of from the fierce , the Hebrew text has from the righteous , but most modern versions correct it to from the fierce . 1

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Cross References

Exodus 6:7I will take you to myself as my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from slavery under the Egyptians.

Ezra 1:2“Cyrus, king of Persia, says: Yahweh, God of Heaven, gave me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he appointed me to build for him a house in Jerusalem in Judea.

Ezra 7:11This was the decree that King Artaxerxes gave Ezra the priest and scribe of Yahweh's commandments and statutes for Israel:

Esther 8:1On that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the property of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, and Mordecai began to serve before the king, for Esther told the king how Mordecai was related to her.

Psalms 25:3May no one who hopes in you be disgraced 1 may those who act treacherously without cause be ashamed! 1

Psalms 68:31Princes will come out of Egypt; 1 Cush will hurry to reach out with 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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