Isaiah 48:19

Your seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of your belly as the dust of the ground: neither now shall you by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall your name perish before me.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

In Context

18And if you had listened to my commandments, then would your peace have been like a river, and your righteousness as a wave of the sea.

20Go forth of Babylon, you that flee from the Chaldeans: utter aloud a voice of joy, and let this be made known, proclaim it to the end of the earth; say you⌃, The Lord has delivered his servant Jacob.

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Cross References

Genesis 22:17And + 22:17 Acts 3:25 in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have listened to my voice.

Joshua 7:9And when the Chananite and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round and destroy us from off the land: and what will you do for your great name?

1 Kings 9:7then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and a byword to all nations.

Isaiah 10:22+ 10:22 Rom 9:27,28 And though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be saved.

Isaiah 48:9For my own sake will I show you my wrath, and will bring before you my glorious acts, that I may not utterly destroy you.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:17-22

Encouragement to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God , and his Spirit, hath sent me. 17 Thus saith the Lord , thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of… Read the whole commentary →

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