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Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.”
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Verse 23. Nurses. The Persian kings favoured the captives. The greatest monarchs bow before the prelates of the Church, ( Menochius.) and kiss the Pope’s toe. They venerate relics, ( Bible.) and greatly enrich the Church. Calmet.
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