Isaiah 14:2

14:2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord’s land. ¹  They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

Isaiah 49:23

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.

Psalms 149:6

149:6 May they praise God

while they hold a two-edged sword in their hand, ⁵ 

Psalms 149:8

149:8 They bind ⁶  their kings in chains,

and their nobles in iron shackles,

[14:2]  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.”

[49:23]  ² tn Heb “your,” but Zion here stands by metonymy for her children (see v. 22b).

[49:23]  ³ tn Heb “you.” See the preceding note.

[49:23]  ⁴ tn Or “at your feet” (NAB, NIV); NLT “from your feet.”

[149:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “[May] praises of God [be] in their throat, and a two-edged sword in their hand.”

[149:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “to bind.”