22 Thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
    (A)and raise my signal to the peoples;
(B)and they shall bring your sons in their arms,[a]
    and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
23 (C)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.
(D)With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
    and (E)lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
    (F)those who wait for me (G)shall not be put to shame.”

24 Can the prey be taken from the mighty,
    or the captives of a tyrant[b] be rescued?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:22 Hebrew in their bosom
  2. Isaiah 49:24 Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac, Vulgate (see also verse 25); Masoretic Text of a righteous man

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