Isaiah 49:23
Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
Note nursing fathers: Heb. nourishers
Note queens: Heb. princesses
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 the Lord; and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.”
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they that wait for me shall not be put to shame.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- kings
- Cyrus, Darius, Artaxerxes, and other Persian monarchs, as well as Alexander the Great, and his successors, particularly Demetrius, conferred many privileges and immunities on the Jewish people, and were munificent benefactors to their temple. But the prophecy was more remarkably and fully fulfilled in the favour which Constantine the Great, and other Christian princes and princesses from his time to the present day, have shewn to the church of Christ; though it cannot be disputed, that the grand and signal accomplishment of these predictions is yet future.
- Isaiah 49:7; Isaiah 52:15; Isaiah 60:3, 10, 11, 16; Isaiah 62:2; Ezra 1:2–4; Ezra 6:7–12; Ezra 7:11–28; Nehemiah 2:6–10; Esther 8:1; Psalm 2:10–12; Psalm 68:31; Psalm 72:10, 11; Psalm 138:4; Revelation 21:24–26
- nursing fathers
- Heb. nourishers.
- Numbers 11:12
- queens
- Heb. princesses. bow.
- Isaiah 45:14; Isaiah 60:14; Genesis 43:26; Psalm 72:9; Revelation 3:9
- lick up
- Micah 7:17
- for they
- Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 64:4; Psalm 25:3; Psalm 34:22; Psalm 69:6; Romans 5:5; Romans 9:33; Romans 10:11; 1 Peter 2:6