19 Your [a](A)descendants would have been like the sand,
And [b]your offspring like its grains;
(B)Their name would never be eliminated or destroyed from My presence.”

20 (C)Go out from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with the sound of (D)joyful shouting, proclaim this,
(E)Send it out to the end of the earth;
Say, “(F)The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”
21 They did not (G)thirst when He led them through the deserts.
He (H)made the water flow out of the rock for them;
He split the rock and (I)the water gushed out.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:19 Lit seed
  2. Isaiah 48:19 Lit the offspring of your inward parts

19 Your descendants(A) would have been like the sand,(B)
    your children like its numberless grains;(C)
their name would never be blotted out(D)
    nor destroyed from before me.”

20 Leave Babylon,
    flee(E) from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy(F)
    and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;(G)
    say, “The Lord has redeemed(H) his servant Jacob.”
21 They did not thirst(I) when he led them through the deserts;
    he made water flow(J) for them from the rock;
he split the rock
    and water gushed out.(K)

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