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Isaiah 48:17-19
New English Translation
Isaiah 48:17-19
New English Translation
17 This is what the Lord, your Protector,[a] says,
the Holy One of Israel:[b]
“I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you how to succeed,
who leads you in the way you should go.
18 If only you had obeyed my[c] commandments,
prosperity would have flowed to you like a river,[d]
deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.[e]
19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand,[f]
and your children[g] like its granules.
Their name would not have been cut off
and eliminated from my presence.[h]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 48:17 tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
- Isaiah 48:17 sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.
- Isaiah 48:18 tn Heb “paid attention to” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “had listened to.”
- Isaiah 48:18 tn Heb “like a river your peace would have been.” שָׁלוֹם (shalom) probably refers here to the peace and prosperity which God promised in return for obedience to the covenant.
- Isaiah 48:18 tn Heb “and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.” צְדָקָה (tsedaqah) probably refers here to divine deliverance from enemies. See v. 19.
- Isaiah 48:19 tn Heb “like sand”; NCV “as many as the grains of sand.”
- Isaiah 48:19 tn Heb “and the issue from your inner parts.”
- Isaiah 48:19 tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”
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