Isaiah 48:19 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”

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ASV

thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

KJV

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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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

And what follows: and your offspring would have been like the sand, and the descendants of your womb like its grains: indeed, it seems to remain in the Jewish people, who to this day, like worms, produce children and grandchildren; but how is this to be understood in terms of the promise, when they do not have peace and righteousness? For either he is angry with them, or appeased. If he is angry, how is his seed multiplied every day? If he is appeased, how do they serve and not possess peace and justice?

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Thy seed also - Instead of being reduced to a small number by the calamities incident to war, and being comparatively a small and powerless people sighing in captivity, you would have been a numerous and mighty nation. This is another of the blessings which would have followed from obedience to the commands of God; and it proves that a people who are virtuous and pious will become numerous and mighty. Vice, and the diseases, the wars, and the divine judgments consequent on vice, tend to depopulate a nation, and to make it feeble.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

JEROME, Chaldee, and Syriac support English Version. his name . . . cut off--transition from the second person, "thy," to the third "his." Israel's name was cut off "as a nation" during the Babylonish captivity; also it is so now, to which the prophecy especially looks (Ro 11:20).

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֤י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
כַחוֹל֙	kha.chOl	like the sand	H2344 →
זַרְעֶ֔ךָ	zar.'E.kha	offspring your	H2233 →
וְצֶאֱצָאֵ֥י	ve.tze.'e.tza.'Ei	and [the] descendants of	H6631 →
מֵעֶ֖יךָ	me.'Ei.kha	inward parts your	H4578 →
כִּמְעֹתָ֑יו	kim.'o.Tav	like grains its	H4579 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יִכָּרֵ֧ת	yi.ka.Ret	it will be cut off	H3772 →
וְֽלֹא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
יִשָּׁמֵ֛ד	yi.sha.Med	it will be destroyed	H8045 →
שְׁמ֖וֹ	she.Mo	name its	H8034 →
מִלְּפָנָֽי׃	mi.le.fa.Nai	from to before me	H6440 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 6:18
  And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
- Galatians 4:6–7
  And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
- John 1:12
  But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
- Romans 9:25–28
  As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”
- 1 Peter 2:9–10
  But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Through
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
leads to
- Genesis 15:5
  And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Romans 9:27
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
leads to
- Isaiah 10:20–23
  On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy…
- Romans 11:4–6
  And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

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