Isaiah 48:18
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
In context
16 Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
17 Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.
18 If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”
20 Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
Isaiah 48:18 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
- KJV 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:
- WEB World English Bible
- 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.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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:
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,
- DBY Darby Translation
- Oh 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;
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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: