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23 I will hand it over to your tormentors,
    those who said to you,
“Lie on the ground
    so that we may walk over you.”
And you flattened your back
    like ground beneath their feet,
    like a road for them to walk on.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:23 Conquerors signified their victory by putting their foot on the neck of the conquered.

23 Maar Ik zal die beker in handen geven van hen die u martelden en uw zielen in het stof vertrapten en die over u heen liepen.’

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23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,(A)
    who said to you,
    ‘Fall prostrate(B) that we may walk(C) on you.’
And you made your back like the ground,
    like a street to be walked on.”(D)

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23 (A)But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
Who have said to [a]you,
‘Lie down, that we may walk over you.’
And you have laid your body like the ground,
And as the street, for those who walk over.”

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  1. Isaiah 51:23 Lit. your soul

23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

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