Isaiah 48:18
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:In other versions
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:
ASV
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:
BBE
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;
DBY
Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
WEB
O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,
YLT
O that you had hearkened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
ENG
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:
WBT
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.
BSB
In context
16Come ye near unto me, hear ye 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, hath sent me.
17Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
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:
19Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
20Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.