Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 48:19

19. Thy seed also had been as the sand , and the off-spring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have been cut off , nor destroyed from before me .

To wit, for multitude, according to my Promise made to Abraham: Whereas now I have, for thy Sins, made thee to know thy breach of Promise, as is said, Numb. 14. 34. and greatly diminished thy Numbers.

Which come out of thy Bowels, or Belly, or Loins; for all these are but various Expressions of the same thing.

Which is continued in a Man's Posterity, and commonly dies with them; and so the name here, is the same thing in effect with the seed and off-spring in the former Clauses, which, for the most part, are the onely memorialls of Men, and of their Names, when they are dead and gone.

As now it hath been in a great measure, and should have been totally and finally cut off, if I had not spared them for my own Names sake, as he said before.

Or, out of my sight, out of their own Land, the place of my special Presence and Residence.