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19 Your descendants would’ve been like the sand,
    and your offspring[a] like its numberless grains.
Their name wouldn’t have been cut off
    or annihilated out of my reach.

20 “Go out from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans!
    With happy shouts, announce
and[b] proclaim this[c] to the ends[d] of the earth:
    Say, ‘The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!’
21 They didn’t thirst when he led him[e] through the desolate places.
    He made water gush[f] from a rock for them;
        he split open the rock, and water gushed out.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:19 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read the offspring of your loins
  2. Isaiah 48:20 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsab MT lack and
  3. Isaiah 48:20 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab 4QIsad MT LXX read this. Send it forth
  4. Isaiah 48:20 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsad MT LXX read end
  5. Isaiah 48:21 So 1QIsaa LXXmss; 4QIsad MT LXX read them
  6. Isaiah 48:21 So 1QIsaa Syr; cf. Ps 78:20 and 105:41; 1QIsab 4QIsad MT read flow; LXX reads he will bring forth