43:5 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.
From the east I will bring your descendants;
from the west I will gather you.
48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, 2
and your children 3 like its granules.
Their name would not have been cut off
and eliminated from my presence. 4
61:9 Their descendants will be known among the nations,
their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will recognize that
the Lord has blessed them.” 5
65:23 They will not work in vain,
or give birth to children that will experience disaster. 6
For the Lord will bless their children
and their descendants. 7
1 tn Heb “Some of your sons, who go out from you, whom you father.”
2 tn Heb “like sand”; NCV “as many as the grains of sand.”
3 tn Heb “and the issue from your inner parts.”
4 tn Heb “and his name would not be cut off and would not be destroyed from before me.”
5 tn Heb “all who see them will recognize them, that they [are] descendants [whom] the Lord has blessed.”
6 tn Heb “and they will not give birth to horror.”
7 tn Heb “for offspring blessed by the Lord they [will be], and their descendants along with them.”