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# my servant will sprinkle many nations
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The servant causing the people of the nations to be acceptable to Yahweh is spoken of as if the servant were a priest who sprinkles the blood of a sacrifice to make someone or something acceptable to Yahweh.
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# will sprinkle
The Hebrew word translated "sprinkle" here can also be translated as "surprise" or "startle," which some versions of the Bible do.
# many nations
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Here "nations" represents the people of the nations.
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# kings will shut their mouths
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"kings will stop talking" or "kings will be silent"
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# that which they had not been told
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"that which no one had told them" or "something no one had told them"
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