I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.
Isaiah 48:19 - Revised Standard Version your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like the offspring of the sea; their name would not be cut off or destroyed from before Me. [Gen. 13:16; Jer. 33:22; Luke 19:42.] American Standard Version (1901) thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me. Common English Bible Your offspring would be like the sand, and your descendants like its grains. Their name would never be eliminated, never wiped out from before me. Catholic Public Domain Version and your offspring would have been like the sand, and the stock from your loins would have been like its stones. His name would not have passed away, nor would it have been worn away before my face. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor have been destroyed from before my face. |
I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.
I will indeed bless you, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore. And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies,
then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
“I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord.
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring.
They shall spring up like grass amid waters, like willows by flowing streams.
“For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.
For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.
I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which shall not be cut off.
“For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before me, says the Lord; so shall your descendants and your name remain.
So the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day—
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”
Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Sons of the living God.”
“I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal and the name of the idolatrous priests;
And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved;
let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?”
Also Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from the gate of his native place; you are witnesses this day.”