 | Mireille Hadas-Lebel - Apocrypha - 2006 - 610 pages
...subjected to the least kingdom. (Sanh. 98a) Such is the ever present promise of the ancient prophecies79: And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their...bow down to thee with their face toward the earth (...) for thou shalt not be ashamed that wait for me. And I will feed them that oppress thee with their... | |
 | Louis Ginzberg - Religion - 2006 - 441 pages
...also God : " I will send you corn and wine." Isaac said, " Peoples shall serve thee/' so also God : " Kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens...nursing mothers; they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet." Isaac said, " Nations shall bow down to thee,"... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Donald Louis Giddens - Religion - 2007 - 288 pages
...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. 23. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down... | |
 | Richard J. Mouw - Religion - 2007 - 145 pages
...twice in the book of Isaiah, and these Calvinist writers undoubtedly had these references in mind: "And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers" (49:23); "Thou . . . shalt suck the breast of kings" (60:16). This is not the kind of imagery that... | |
 | Winfried Brugger, Michael Karayanni - Law - 2007 - 469 pages
...2004, 1436. 53 Cf. L. Tribe, American Constitutional Law, 2nd ed., 1988, ยง 14-3. 54 See Isaiah 49:23 ("Kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers."). According to this, eg, Queen Elizabeth I was called "Nource of the Church" by the Bishop of Salisbury.... | |
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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,... 
