Isaiah 48:18

If only you had obeyed my commandments! 1 Then your peace and prosperity would have flowed like a river, and your salvation like the waves of the sea. 1

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O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

In Context

17This is what Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says, 1 “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you how to succeed, 1 who leads you by the way that you should go. 1

19Your descendants would have been as numerous as the sand, and the children from your womb as numerous as the grains of sand; 1 their name would not have been cut off nor blotted out from before me. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:29Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, 1 that they would consider their coming fate! 1

Psalms 81:13Oh, that my people would listen to me; 1 oh, that my people would walk in my paths. 1

Psalms 119:165Great peace they have, those who love your law; 1 nothing makes them stumble. 1

Isaiah 45:8You heavens, rain down from above! Let the skies rain down righteousness. 1 Let the earth absorb it, that salvation may sprout up, 1 and righteousness spring up together with it. I, Yahweh, have created them both. 1

Isaiah 66:12This is what Yahweh says, 1 “I am about to spread prosperity over her like a river, 1 and the riches of the nations like an overflowing stream. 1 You will nurse at her side, be carried in her arms, and be dandled on her knees. 1

Matthew 23:37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often did I long to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

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 →

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