to you they shall bow, / to
you they shall pray. This wording may sound somewhat suspect from a
monotheistic point of view. It should probably be taken as an extravagant
hyperbole—these peoples of the south will be so abjectly enslaved to the
Israelites that they will prostrate themselves before them and worship them as
though they were gods. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New
York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:774)
