19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the fruit of thy body like the gravel thereof: his [a]name should not have been cut off nor destroyed before me.

20 [b]Go ye out of Babel: flee ye from the Chaldeans with a voice of joy: tell and declare this: show it forth to the end of the earth: say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

21 And they [c]were not thirsty: he led them through the wilderness: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: for he clave the rock and the water gushed out.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:19 That is, the prosperous estate of Israel.
  2. Isaiah 48:20 After that he had forewarned them of their captivity, and of the cause thereof, he showeth them the great joy that shall come of their deliverance.
  3. Isaiah 48:21 He showeth that it shall be as easy to deliver them, as he did their fathers out of Egypt.

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