Text -- Isaiah 48:19-22 (NET)

48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence. 48:20 Leave Babylon! Flee from the Babylonians! Announce it with a shout of joy! Make this known! Proclaim it throughout the earth! Say, ‘The Lord protects his servant Jacob. 48:21 They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions; he makes water flow out of a rock for them; he splits open a rock and water flows out.’ 48:22 There will be no prosperity for the wicked,” says the Lord.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 48:19

¹ tn Heb “like sand”; NCV “as many as the grains of sand.”

² tn Heb “and the issue from your inner parts.”

³ tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”

NET Notes: Isa 48:20

¹ tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).

² tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.

NET Notes: Isa 48:21

¹ sn The translation above (present tense) assumes that this verse describes God’s provision for returning Babylonian exiles (see v. 20; 35:6; 49:10) in terms reminiscent of the Exodus from Egypt (see Exod 17:6).