Isaiah 48:18
Oh that thou hadst but listened to my commandments! then would have been as a river thy peace, and thy prosperity as the waves of the sea:
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Deuteronomy 32:29If they were but wise, they would understand this, they would consider their latter end!
Psalms 81:13(81:14) Oh that my people would hearken unto me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
Psalms 119:165Abundant peace have they who love thy law; and thee is nothing that causeth them to stumble.
Isaiah 45:8Drop down ye heavens, and let the skies distil blessing; let the earth open and let them [all] be fruitful of prosperity, and let righteousness spring up likewise: I the Lord have created it.
Isaiah 66:12For thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will extend to her peace like a river, and like a rapid stream the glory of nations, that ye may suck: upon the arm shall ye be borne, and upon knees shall ye be dandled.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:17-22
Encouragement to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God , and his Spirit, hath sent me. 17 Thus saith the Lord , thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of… Read the whole commentary →