Isaiah 48:19

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17 Thus says ^athe Lord, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
Who teaches you to profit,
^bWho leads you by the way you should go.

18 ^aOh, that you had heeded My commandments!
^bThen your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

19 ^aYour descendants also would have been like the sand,
And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;
His name would not have been cut off
Nor destroyed from before Me.”

20 ^aGo forth from Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing,
Declare, proclaim this,
Utter it to the end of the earth;
Say, “The Lord has ^bredeemed
His servant Jacob!”

21 And they ^adid not thirst
When He led them through the deserts;
He ^bcaused the waters to flow from the rock for them;
He also split the rock, and the waters gushed out.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 48:19

Like the gravel thereof "Like that of the bowels thereof" - betseetsaey meey haiyam vehem haddagim ; "As the issue of the bowels of the sea; that is, fishes." - Salom. ben Melec. And so likewise Aben Ezra, Jarchi Kimchi, etc.

His name "Thy name" - For shemo , "his name," the Septuagint had in the copy from which they translated shimcha , "thy name."

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