Isaiah 48:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Your nation would be blessed with more people than there are grains of sand along the seashore. And I would never have let your country be destroyed.

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will give you more descendants than there are specks of dust on the earth, and some day it will be easier to count the specks of dust than to count your descendants.

Genesis 22:17

“I will bless you and give you such a large family, that some day your descendants will be more numerous than the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the beach. They will defeat their enemies and take over the cities where their enemies live.

1 Kings 9:7

I will no longer let my people Israel live in this land I gave them. I will desert this temple where I said I would be worshipped. Then people everywhere will think this nation is only a joke and will make fun of it.

Job 5:25

You will have more descendants than there are blades of grass on the face of the earth.

Psalm 109:13

Bring an end to his family, and from now on let him be a forgotten man.

Psalm 9:5

You warn the nations and destroy evil people; you wipe out their names for ever and ever.

Isaiah 14:22

The LORD All-Powerful has promised to attack Babylonia and destroy everyone there, so that none of them will ever be remembered again.

Isaiah 44:3

I will bless the thirsty land by sending streams of water; I will bless your descendants by giving them my Spirit.

Isaiah 44:4

They will spring up like grass or like willow trees near flowing streams.

Isaiah 48:9

I, the LORD, am true to myself; I will be praised for not punishing and destroying you.

Isaiah 54:3

You and your descendants will take over the land of other nations. You will settle in towns that are now in ruins.

Isaiah 56:5

Then I will set up monuments in my temple with your names written on them. This will be much better than having children, because these monuments will stand there for ever.

Isaiah 66:22

I also promise that you will always have descendants and will never be forgotten, just as the new heavens and the new earth that I create will last for ever.

Isaiah 9:14

In one day he cut off their head and tail, their leaves and branches.

Jeremiah 33:22

and there will be more descendants of David and of the priests from the Levi tribe than stars in the sky or grains of sand on the beach.

Hosea 1:10

Some day it will be impossible to count the people of Israel, because there will be as many of them as there are grains of sand along the seashore. They are now called “Not My People”, but in the future they will be called “Children of the Living God”.

Zephaniah 1:4

I will reach out to punish Judah and Jerusalem— nothing will remain of the god Baal; nothing will be remembered of his pagan priests.

Romans 9:27

And this is what the prophet Isaiah said about the people of Israel, “The people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand along the beach. But only a few who are left will be saved.

Deuteronomy 9:14

So don't try to stop me! I am going to wipe them out, and no one on earth will remember they ever lived. Then I will let your descendants become an even bigger and more powerful nation than Israel.

Joshua 7:9

Everyone will think you weren't strong enough to protect your people. Now the Canaanites and everyone else who lives in the land will surround us and wipe us out.

Ruth 4:10

You are also witnesses that I have agreed to marry Mahlon's widow Ruth, the Moabite woman. This will keep the property in his family's name, and he will be remembered in this town.