Verse 23
Isaiah 49:23
GOD'S WORD Translation
23
Kings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
and lick the dust of your feet;
Then you will know that I am Yahweh;
and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הָי֨וּ מְלָכִ֜ים אֹֽמְנַ֗יִ/ךְ וְ/שָׂרֽוֹתֵי/הֶם֙ מֵינִ֣יקֹתַ֔יִ/ךְ אַפַּ֗יִם אֶ֚רֶץ יִשְׁתַּ֣חֲווּ לָ֔/ךְ וַ/עֲפַ֥ר רַגְלַ֖יִ/ךְ יְלַחֵ֑כוּ וְ/יָדַ֨עַתְּ֙ כִּֽי אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא יֵבֹ֖שׁוּ קוָֹֽ/י
English Translation
And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers; they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the Lord who will not be put to shame.
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Chapter 49 Context
1
Listen, islands, to me.
Listen, you peoples, from afar:
Yahweh has called me from the womb;
from the...
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2
He has made my mouth like a sharp sword.
He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
He has made me...
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3
He said to me, “You are my servant;
Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
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4
But I said, “I have labored in vain.
I have spent my strength in vain for nothing;
yet surely the ju...
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5
Now Yahweh says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob again to him,
and...
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6
Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Ja...
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7
Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nat...
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8
Yahweh says, “In an acceptable time I have answered you,
and in a day of salvation I have helped you...
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9
saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;
to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’
“They s...
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10
They shall not hunger nor thirst;
neither shall the heat nor sun strike them:
for he who has mercy o...
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11
I will make all my mountains a road,
and my highways shall be exalted.
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12
Behold, these shall come from afar;
and behold, these from the north and from the west;
and these fr...
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13
Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth;
and break out into singing, mountains:
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14
But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me,
and the Lord has forgotten me.”
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15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Y...
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16
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.
your walls are continually before me.
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Your children hurry.
Your destroyers and those who devastated you will leave you.
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18
Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
all these gather themselves together, and come to you.
As I l...
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19
“For, as for your waste and your desolate places,
and your land that has been destroyed,
surely now...
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20
The children of your bereavement will say in your ears,
‘This place is too small for me.
Give me a p...
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21
Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my c...
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22
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
and lift up my banner to...
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23
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and their queens your nursing mothers.
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