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22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Look! I will lift my hand up to the nations,
    and I will raise my signal to the peoples,
and they shall bring your sons in their bosom,
    and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.[a]
23 And kings shall be your guardians,[b]
    and their queens your nurses.
They shall bow down, faces[c] to the ground, to you,
    and they will lick up the dust of your feet.
Then[d] you will know that I am Yahweh;
    those who await me shall not be ashamed.
24 Can war-booty be taken from the mighty?
    or can a captive of a righteous[e] person be rescued?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:22 Hebrew “shoulder”
  2. Isaiah 49:23 Literally “those who nurture”
  3. Isaiah 49:23 Literally “noses”
  4. Isaiah 49:23 Or “And”
  5. Isaiah 49:24 The Dead Sea Scroll has “violent”