Isaiah 48:18

WEB

¹⁸Oh 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.

KJV

¹⁸O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

BSB

¹⁸If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.

FBV

¹⁸If you had only listened carefully to what I told you! Then your blessings would have flowed like a river, and goodness would have washed over you like the waves of the sea.

Extra References

Deuteronomy 5:29

²⁹Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Psalms 119:165

¹⁶⁵Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

¹²For the LORD says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.

Psalms 81:13-16

¹³Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! ¹⁴I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries. ¹⁵The haters of the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever. ¹⁶But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

Deuteronomy 32:29

²⁹Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Psalms 36:8

⁸They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

Luke 19:41-42

⁴¹When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it, ⁴²saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

Isaiah 45:8

⁸Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it.

Amos 5:24

²⁴But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Isaiah 32:15-18

¹⁵until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest. ¹⁶Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field. ¹⁷The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. ¹⁸My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,