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


In Context

15 I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him. I will bring him, and he will succeed in his mission.

16 "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, with his Spirit.

17 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.

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

19 Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be cut off nor destroyed from before me."

20 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."

Isaiah 48:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

48:18O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

48:18O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

48:18Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

48:18Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then would thy peace have been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

48:18Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

48:18O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

48:18Oh 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:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

48:18O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

48:18O that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: