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Oh, that you had listened to my commands! Then you would have had peace flowing like a gentle river and righteousness rolling over you like waves in the sea.
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If only you had paid attention to My commands. Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Isaiah 48:18 In-Context
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“Come near me and listen to this: “From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret; at the time it happens, I am there.” And now the Sovereign LORD has sent me, endowed with his Spirit.
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This is what the LORD says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.
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If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your well-being like the waves of the sea.
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Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be blotted out nor destroyed from before me.”
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Leave Babylon, flee from the Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it. Send it out to the ends of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.”