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:


In Context

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 was, there am I.| Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, with his Spirit.

17 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

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:

19 your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

20 Go forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say, Yahweh 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

48:18If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

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 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: