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# Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursemaids
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"The kings and queens of other nations will provide for your inhabitants"
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# they will bow down to you with their faces to the earth and lick the dust of your feet
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These phrases describe gestures that people used to express complete submission to a superior.
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# lick the dust of your feet
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Possible meanings are 1) that this is a literal expression of submission where the person licks the dust off of a superior's foot or from the ground at the superior's foot or 2) that this is an idiom that describes a person prostrating himself before a superior.
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# will not be put to shame
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"will not be ashamed" or "will not be disappointed"
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