Yesaya 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.

Yesaya 66:13

66:13 As a mother consoles a child, ⁴ 

so I will console you,

and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

[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.”

[66:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “like a man whose mother comforts him.”