49:23 Kings will be your children’s 2 guardians;
their princesses will nurse your children. 3
With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you
and they will lick the dirt on 4 your feet.
Then you will recognize that I am the Lord;
those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.
149:6 May they praise God
while they hold a two-edged sword in their hand, 5
149:8 They bind 6 their kings in chains,
and their nobles in iron shackles,
1 tn Heb “and the house of Jacob will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.”
2 tn Heb “your,” but Zion here stands by metonymy for her children (see v. 22b).
3 tn Heb “you.” See the preceding note.
4 tn Or “at your feet” (NAB, NIV); NLT “from your feet.”
5 tn Heb “[May] praises of God [be] in their throat, and a two-edged sword in their hand.”
6 tn Heb “to bind.”