23 xKings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
yWith their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
and zlick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
athose who wait for me bshall not be put to shame.”
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Psalm 72:9
May desert tribes bow down before him,
and his enemies lick the dust!
Micah 7:17
they shall lick the dust like a serpent,
like the crawling things of the earth;
they shall come trembling out of their strongholds;
they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God,
and they shall be in fear of you.
Psalm 25:3
Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame;
they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
Joel 2:27
You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else.
And my people shall never again be put to shame.
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