American King James Version
"O that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: "
— Isaiah 48:18, American King James Version
“O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:”
“Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: ”
“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:”
“If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.”
“O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,”
“If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:”
“O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:”
I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. ¶
Come you near to me, hear you this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, has sent me.
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD your God which teaches you to profit, which leads you by the way that you should go.
O that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. ¶
Go you forth of Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say you, The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.