Isaiah 49:22-26

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22} This is what the Lord God says:

Look, I will lift up My hand to the nations,
and raise My banner to the peoples.^(A)
They will bring your sons in their arms,
and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.^(B)

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Kings will be your foster fathers,
and their queens^(a) your nursing mothers.^(C)
They will bow down to you
with their faces to the ground,
and lick the dust at your feet.^(D)
Then you will know that I am Yahweh;^(E)
those who put their hope in Me
will not be put to shame.^(F)

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Can the prey be taken from the mighty,
or the captives of the righteous^(b) be delivered?

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For this is what the Lord says:
“Even the captives of a mighty man will be taken,
and the prey of a tyrant will be delivered;
I will contend with the one who contends with you,
and I will save your children.

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I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,^(G)
and they will be drunk with their own blood
as with sweet wine.
Then all flesh will know
that I, Yahweh, am your Savior,^(H)
and your Redeemer,^(I) the Mighty One of Jacob.”^(J)

Footnotes:

a. Isaiah 49:23: Lit princesses

b. Isaiah 49:24: DSS, Syr, Vg read fearsome one, or tyrant

Cross references:

A. Isaiah 49:22: Isaiah 11:10-12; Isaiah 18:3; Isaiah 62:10

B. Isaiah 49:22: Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 43:6; Isaiah 60:4

C. Isaiah 49:23: Isaiah 60:3; Isaiah 60:10-11

D. Isaiah 49:23: Isaiah 14:1-2

E. Isaiah 49:23: Isaiah 41:20; Isaiah 43:10; Isaiah 60:16

F. Isaiah 49:23: Psalm 25:3; Isaiah 45:17; Joel 2:27

G. Isaiah 49:26: Isaiah 9:20

H. Isaiah 49:26: Isaiah 43:3

I. Isaiah 49:26: Isaiah 41:14

J. Isaiah 49:26: Genesis 49:24; Psalm 132:2; Psalm 132:5; Isaiah 60:16