Isaiah 49:23

49:23 Kings will be your children’s ¹  guardians;

their princesses will nurse your children. ² 

With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you

and they will lick the dirt on ³  your feet.

Then you will recognize that I am the Lord;

those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.

Isaiah 61:6

61:6 You will be called, ‘the Lord’s priests,

servants of our God.’ ⁴ 

You will enjoy ⁵  the wealth of nations

and boast about ⁶  the riches you receive from them. ⁷ 

Isaiah 66:11-12

66:11 For ⁸  you will nurse from her satisfying breasts and be nourished; ⁹ 

you will feed with joy from her milk-filled breasts. ¹⁰ 

66:12 For this is what the Lord says:

“Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river,

the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks. ¹¹ 

You will nurse from her breast ¹²  and be carried at her side;

you will play on her knees.

[49:23]  ¹ tn Heb “your,” but Zion here stands by metonymy for her children (see v. 22b).

[49:23]  ² tn Heb “you.” See the preceding note.

[49:23]  ³ tn Or “at your feet” (NAB, NIV); NLT “from your feet.”

[61:6]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text adds, “it will be said concerning you.”

[61:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “eat” (KJV, NAB, NASB); NIV “feed on”; NLT “be fed with.”

[61:6]  ⁶ tc The form in the Hebrew text is probably a corruption of יִתְאַמְּרוּ (yit’ammÿru), a Hitpael from אָמַר (’amar), meaning “boast about” (see HALOT 67 s.v. II אמר, HALOT 416 s.v. ימר, and BDB 56 s.v. אָמַר).

[61:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “their glory” (i.e., riches).

[66:11]  ⁸ tn Or “in order that”; ASV, NRSV “that.”

[66:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “you will suck and be satisfied, from her comforting breast.”

[66:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you will slurp and refresh yourselves from her heavy breast.”

[66:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Look, I am ready to extend to her like a river prosperity [or “peace”], and like an overflowing stream, the riches of nations.”

[66:12]  ¹² tn The words “from her breast” are supplied in the translation for clarification (see v. 11).