“Oh that you had listened to my commandments!Then your peace would have been like a riverand your righteousness like the waves of the sea.”
Isaiah 48:18 (WEB)
Context Reading
16“Come near to me and hear this:“From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;from the time that it happened, I was there.”Now the Lord Yahweh has sent mewith his Spirit. 17Yahweh,your Redeemer,the Holy One of Israel, says:“I am Yahweh your God,who teaches you to profit,who leads you by the way that you should go. 18Oh that you had listened to my commandments!Then your peace would have been like a riverand your righteousness like the waves of the sea. 19Your offspring also would have been as the sandand the descendants of your body like its grains.His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.” 20Leave Babylon!Flee from the Chaldeans!With the sound of joyful shouting announce this,tell it even to the end of the earth;say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”