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.
49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;
they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. 4
Then all humankind 5 will recognize that
I am the Lord, your deliverer,
your protector, 6 the powerful ruler of Jacob.” 7
1 tn Heb “your,” but Zion here stands by metonymy for her children (see v. 22b).
2 tn Heb “you.” See the preceding note.
3 tn Or “at your feet” (NAB, NIV); NLT “from your feet.”
4 sn Verse 26a depicts siege warfare and bloody defeat. The besieged enemy will be so starved they will their own flesh. The bloodstained bodies lying on the blood-soaked battle site will look as if they collapsed in drunkenness.
5 tn Heb “flesh” (so KJV, NASB).
6 tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
7 tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Jacob.” See 1:24.