Isaiah 60:10

60:10 Foreigners will rebuild your walls;

their kings will serve you.

Even though I struck you down in my anger,

I will restore my favor and have compassion on you. ¹ 

Isaiah 60:16

60:16 You will drink the milk of nations;

you will nurse at the breasts of kings. ² 

Then you will recognize that I, the Lord, am your deliverer,

your protector, ³  the powerful ruler of Jacob. ⁴ 

Isaiah 49:7

49:7 This is what the Lord,

the protector ⁵  of Israel, their Holy One, ⁶  says

to the one who is despised ⁷  and rejected ⁸  by nations, ⁹ 

a servant of rulers:

“Kings will see and rise in respect, ¹⁰ 

princes will bow down,

because of the faithful Lord,

the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”

Isaiah 49:23

49:23 Kings will be your children’s ¹¹  guardians;

their princesses will nurse your children. ¹² 

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

and they will lick the dirt on ¹³  your feet.

Then you will recognize that I am the Lord;

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

Psalms 2:10

2:10 So now, you kings, do what is wise; ¹⁴ 

you rulers of the earth, submit to correction! ¹⁵ 

Psalms 68:29

68:29 as you come out of your temple in Jerusalem! ¹⁶ 

Kings bring tribute to you.

Psalms 72:11

72:11 All kings will bow down to him;

all nations will serve him.

Psalms 138:4

138:4 Let all the kings of the earth give thanks ¹⁷  to you, O Lord,

when they hear the words you speak. ¹⁸ 

Revelation 11:15

The Seventh Trumpet

11:15 Then ¹⁹  the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying:

“The kingdom of the world

has become the kingdom of our Lord

and of his Christ, ²⁰ 

and he will reign for ever and ever.”

Revelation 21:24

21:24 The nations ²¹  will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur ²²  into it.

[60:10]  ¹ tn Heb “in my favor I will have compassion on you.”

[60:16]  ² sn The nations and kings are depicted as a mother nursing her children. Restored Zion will be nourished by them as she receives their wealth as tribute.

[60:16]  ³ tn Or “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[60:16]  ⁴ sn See 1:24 and 49:26.

[49:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[49:7]  ⁶ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[49:7]  ⁷ tc The Hebrew text reads literally “to [one who] despises life.” It is preferable to read with the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a לבזוי, which should be vocalized as a passive participle, לִבְזוּי (livzuy, “to the one despised with respect to life” [נֶפֶשׁ is a genitive of specification]). The consonantal sequence וי was probably misread as ה in the MT tradition. The contextual argument favors the 1QIsa^a reading. As J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [NICOT], 2:294) points out, the three terse phrases “convey a picture of lowliness, worthlessness, and helplessness.”

[49:7]  ⁸ tn MT’s Piel participle (“to the one who rejects”) does not fit contextually. The form should be revocalized as a Pual, “to the one rejected.”

[49:7]  ⁹ tn Parallelism (see “rulers,” “kings,” “princes”) suggests that the singular גּוֹי (goy) be emended to a plural or understood in a collective sense (see 55:5).

[49:7]  ¹⁰ tn For this sense of קוּם (qum), see Gen 19:1; 23:7; 33:10; Lev 19:32; 1 Sam 20:41; 25:41; 1 Kgs 2:19; Job 29:8.

[49:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your,” but Zion here stands by metonymy for her children (see v. 22b).

[49:23]  ¹² tn Heb “you.” See the preceding note.

[49:23]  ¹³ tn Or “at your feet” (NAB, NIV); NLT “from your feet.”

[2:10]  ¹⁴ sn The speaker here is either the psalmist or the Davidic king, who now addresses the rebellious kings.

[2:10]  ¹⁵ tn The Niphal has here a tolerative nuance; the kings are urged to submit themselves to the advice being offered.

[68:29]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Be strong, O God, [you] who have acted for us, from your temple in Jerusalem.”

[138:4]  ¹⁷ tn The prefixed verbal forms here and in the following verse are understood as jussives, for the psalmist appears to be calling upon the kings to praise God. Another option is to take them as imperfects and translate, “the kings of the earth will give thanks…and will sing.” In this case the psalmist anticipates a universal response to his thanksgiving song.

[138:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the words of your mouth.”

[11:15]  ¹⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[11:15]  ²⁰ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[21:24]  ²¹ tn Or “the Gentiles” (the same Greek word may be translated “Gentiles” or “nations”).

[21:24]  ²² tn Or “splendor”; Grk “glory.”