Isaiah 49:23
23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers,e and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
Isa. 49:23. "And kings," etc. - i.e., to nurse thy children, thy sons and daughters (spoken of in the foregoing verse), that the Gentiles shall bring in their arms, and upon their shoulders. It is not meant that kings shall stand in the relation of nursing-fathers, and queens be nursing-mothers to thee. For that hardly will agree to what follows - "They shall bow down," etc., which does not so well suit with the relation of fathers and mothers as of servants. It is meant they shall be thy nourishers and nurses, not to thee, but for thee, to thy children. Tutors and nurses are a sort of servants in great houses; and that a sort of servants or ministers are meant here is confirmed from chap. Isaiah 60:10; Isaiah 60:16.
Isa. 51:4