Verse 18
Isaiah 48:18
World English Bible
18
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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
ל֥וּא הִקְשַׁ֖בְתָּ לְ/מִצְוֺתָ֑/י וַ/יְהִ֤י כַ/נָּהָר֙ שְׁלוֹמֶ֔/ךָ וְ/צִדְקָתְ/ךָ֖ כְּ/גַלֵּ֥י הַ/יָּֽם
English Translation
If 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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Chapter 48 Context
1
“Hear this, house of Jacob,
you who are called by the name of Israel,
and have come out of the water...
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2
(for they call themselves citizens of the holy city,
and rely on the God (Elohim) of Israel;
Yahweh...
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3
I have declared the former things from of old;
yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them....
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4
Because I knew that you are obstinate,
and your neck is an iron sinew,
and your brow brass;
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5
therefore I have declared it to you from of old;
before it came to pass I showed it to you;
lest you...
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6
You have heard it;
see all this.
And you, won’t you declare it?
“I have shown you new things from th...
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7
They are created now, and not from of old;
and before today you didn’t hear them;
lest you should sa...
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8
Yes, you didn’t hear;
yes, you didn’t know;
yes, from of old your ear was not opened:
for I knew tha...
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9
For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger,
and for my praise I hold it back for you,
so that I don’t...
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10
Behold, I have refined you,
but not as silver.
I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
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11
For my own sake,
for my own sake, I will do it;
for how would my name be profaned?
I will not give m...
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12
“Listen to me, O Jacob,
and Israel my called:
I am he;
I am the first,
I am also the last.
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13
Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
and my right hand has spread out the heavens.
whe...
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14
“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear;
who among them has declared these things?
He whom Yahweh...
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15
I, even I, have spoken;
yes, I have called him.
I have brought him,
and he shall make his way prospe...
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16
“Come near to me and hear this:
“From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time that...
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17
Yahweh,
your Redeemer,
the Holy One of Israel says:
“I am Yahweh your God (Elohim),
who teaches you...
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18
Oh that you had listened to my commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your...
19
Your offspring also would have been as the sand,
and the descendants of your body like its grains.
H...
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20
Leave Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing announce this,
tell it even to the e...
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21
They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts.
He caused the waters to flow out of the roc...
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22
“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”
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