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16 Draw near to me, and[a] listen to this:
    ‘From the beginning I haven’t spoken in secret;
at[b] the time it happened, I was there.’
    And now the Lord God, and his Spirit, has sent me.[c]

17 “This is what the Lord says,
    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

“I am the Lord your God,
    who teaches you how to succeed,
        who directs you[d] in the path by which[e] you should go.
18 Now[f] if only you had paid attention to my commandments!
    Then your peace would have been like a river,
        and your success like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants would’ve been like the sand,
    and your offspring[g] like its numberless grains.
Their name wouldn’t have been cut off
    or annihilated out of my reach.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:16 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks and
  2. Isaiah 48:16 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads from
  3. Isaiah 48:16 Or has sent me and his Spirit.
  4. Isaiah 48:17 1QIsaa misspells this word
  5. Isaiah 48:17 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsab 4QIsac 4QIsad MT lack which
  6. Isaiah 48:18 So 1QIsaa 1QIsab 4QIsac LXX; MT lacks Now
  7. Isaiah 48:19 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read the offspring of your loins