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)”

²⁴ Can plunder be taken from warriors,^(H)
    or captives be rescued from the fierce^[a]?

“Yes, captives^(I) will be taken from warriors,^(J)
    and plunder retrieved from the fierce;^(K)
I will contend with those who contend with you,^(L)
    and your children I will save.^(M)
26 I will make your oppressors^(N) eat^(O) their own flesh;
    they will be drunk on their own blood,^(P) as with wine.
Then all mankind will know^(Q)
    that I, the Lord, am your Savior,^(R)
    your Redeemer,^(S) the Mighty One of Jacob.^(T)”