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29 All who prosper on earth will eat and bow down;
all those who go down to the dust
will kneel before him –
even the one who cannot preserve his life.(A)

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23 Kings will be your guardians
and their queens[a] your nursing mothers.(A)
They will bow down to you
with their faces to the ground
and lick the dust at your feet.(B)
Then you will know that I am the Lord;(C)
those who put their hope in me
will not be put to shame.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 49:23 Lit princesses

17 They will lick the dust like a snake;(A)
they will come trembling out of their hiding places(B)
like reptiles slithering on the ground.(C)
They will tremble in the presence of the Lord our God;(D)
they will stand in awe of you.

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