 | 470 pages
...22 Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. 23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down... | |
 | Patrick R. O'Malley - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 16 pages
...father has its roots in both the 1535 Coverdale translation and the King James Version of Isaiah 49:23: "And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers" (KJV). The Oxford English Dictionary's, citations of "nursing father" in the nineteenth century increasingly... | |
 | James Tengatenga - History - 2006 - 225 pages
...commonwealth but also religious leaders. He understood the passage in Isaiah 49:23 which says that 'kings shall be thy nursing fathers and their queens thy nursing mothers' of the people of Israel as giving the kings the right of religious leadership. He then went on to take... | |
 | Nancy J. Hirschmann, Kirstie M. McClure - Social Science - 2010 - 352 pages
...Princeton University Press, 1988), 62. 49. This intriguing phrase is biblical in origin. See Isaiah 49:23: "And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their...toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that 1 am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me." 50. See Two... | |
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Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, And set up my standard to the people : And they shall bring thy sons in their arms, And thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers,... 
