^23 (A)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
And their queens your nursing mothers;
They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
And ^(B)lick up the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord,
^(C)For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”

¹⁷ They shall lick the ^(A)dust like a serpent;
^(B)They shall crawl from their holes like ^[a]snakes of the earth.
^(C)They shall be afraid of the Lord our God,
And shall fear because of You.