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Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be blotted out nor destroyed from before me.”
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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.
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Your descendants would have been like the sands along the seashore— too many to count! There would have been no need for your destruction, or for cutting off your family name.”
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Your descendants would have been as [countless] as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains; their name would not be cut off or eliminated from My presence.
Isaiah 48:19 In-Context
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This is what the LORD says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.
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If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your well-being like the waves of the sea.
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Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be blotted out nor destroyed from before me.”
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Leave Babylon, flee from the Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it. Send it out to the ends of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.”
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They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and water gushed out.