Isaiah 48:18

18 1Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! 2Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

Isaiah 48:18 In-Context

16 Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now the Lord GOD has sent me, and his Spirit.
17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
18 Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
19 your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me."
20 Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!"

Cross References 2

  • 1. Psalms 81:13; Luke 19:42; [Deuteronomy 32:29]
  • 2. Isaiah 66:12
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