Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants would have been as numerous as the sand, and the children from your womb as numerous as the grains of sand; 1 their name would not have been cut off nor blotted out from before me. 1

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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

18If only you had obeyed my commandments! 1 Then your peace and prosperity would have flowed like a river, and your salvation like the waves of the sea. 1

20Come out from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! 1 With the sound of a ringing cry announce it! Make this known, make it go out to the ends of the earth! 1 Say, 'Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob.' 1

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Cross References

Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you and I will greatly multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your descendants will possess the gate of their enemies.

Joshua 7:9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it. They will surround us and make the people of the earth forget our name. What will you do for your great name?”

1 Kings 9:7then will I cut off Israel from off the ground that I have given them; and this house that I have set apart to my name, I will cast it out of my sight, and Israel will become an example to be mocked and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

Psalms 109:13May his children be cut off; 1 may their name be blotted out in the next generation. 1

Isaiah 10:22For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the seashore, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, as overflowing righteousness demands. 1

Isaiah 48:9For the sake of my name I will defer my anger, and for my honor I will hold back from destroying you. 1

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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