Oh that you had listened to my commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 48:18 in context
Isaiah 48:15–21
15
I, even I, have spoken.
Yes, I have called him.
I have brought him
and he shall make his way prosperous.
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 GOD has sent me
with his Spirit.
17
The LORD,
your Redeemer,
the Holy One of Israel, says:
“I am the LORD your God,
who teaches you to profit,
who leads you by the way that you should go.
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Oh that you had listened to my commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
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Your offspring also would have been as the sand
and the descendants of your body like its grains.
His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”
20
Leave Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With the sound of joyful shouting announce this,
tell it even to the end of the earth;
say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
21
They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts.
He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them.
He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.
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