Isaiah 48:18-20
International Standard Version
18 Now[a] if only you had paid attention to my commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your success like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants would’ve been like the sand,
and your offspring[b] 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[c] proclaim this[d] to the ends[e] of the earth:
Say, ‘The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!’
Footnotes
- Isaiah 48:18 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab 4QIsac LXX; MT lacks Now
- Isaiah 48:19 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read the offspring of your loins
- Isaiah 48:20 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsab MT lack and
- Isaiah 48:20 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab 4QIsad MT LXX read this. Send it forth
- Isaiah 48:20 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsad MT LXX read end
Isaiah 48:18-20
New International Version
18 If only you had paid attention(A) to my commands,
your peace(B) would have been like a river,(C)
your well-being(D) like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants(E) would have been like the sand,(F)
your children like its numberless grains;(G)
their name would never be blotted out(H)
nor destroyed from before me.”
Isaiah 48:18-20
King James Version
18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
19 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.
20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
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