🕊️WEB · Isaiah 48:21

What does Isaiah 48:21 mean?

"They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He split the rock also, and the waters gushed out."

— Isaiah 48:21 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

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Your offspring also would have been as the sand, and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”

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Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

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They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

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“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”

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