Isaiah 49:21-23
International Standard Version
21 Then you’ll ask[a] in your heart,
‘Who bore these children for me,
although I was childless and barren,
and[b] an exile[c] and cast aside?
Who[d] brought these up?
Look![e] For my part I was left all alone;
but as for these, where have they come from?’
22 “For[f] this what the Lord[g] says,
‘Watch! I’ll lift up my hand to the nations
and raise my banner to the[h] peoples.[i]
They will bring your sons in their arms,
and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.’
23 “Oh, yes![j] Kings will be your foster fathers,
and their queens will be your nursing mothers.
They will bow to you with their faces to the ground,
and lick the dust from your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
those who hope in me will not be disappointed.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:21 Lit. say
- Isaiah 49:21 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack and
- Isaiah 49:21 LXX lacks and an exile
- Isaiah 49:21 So 1QIsaa. MT LXX read And who
- Isaiah 49:21 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks Look!
- Isaiah 49:22 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack For
- Isaiah 49:22 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads my Lord the Lord
- Isaiah 49:22 So 1QIsaa; MT lacks the
- Isaiah 49:22 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX reads islands
- Isaiah 49:23 Or And aha!; so 1QIsaa cf. Isa 55:1; MT LXX read And it will happen that
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