²⁴ I will send wasting famine^(A) against them,
    consuming pestilence^(B) and deadly plague;^(C)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,^(D)
    the venom of vipers^(E) that glide in the dust.^(F)

⁴⁵ They all lose heart;^(A)
    they come trembling^(B) from their strongholds.^(C)

⁹ May the desert tribes bow before him
    and his enemies lick the dust.

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)”

¹⁹ From the west,^(A) people will fear the name of the Lord,
    and from the rising of the sun,^(B) they will revere his glory.^(C)
For he will come like a pent-up flood
    that the breath^(D) of the Lord drives along.^[a]