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.
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. 4
You will nurse from her breast 5 and be carried at her side;
you will play on her knees.
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 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.”
5 tn The words “from her breast” are supplied in the translation for clarification (see v. 11).