Isaiah 48:18

World English Bible (2000)

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:

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  • Isa 66:12 : 12 For thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.
  • Deut 32:29 : 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
  • Ps 119:165 : 165 Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
  • Deut 5:29 : 29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
  • Isa 32:15-18 : 15 Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest. 16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field. 17 The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. 18 My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
  • Amos 5:24 : 24 But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
  • Luke 19:41-42 : 41 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Isa 45:8 : 8 Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
  • Ps 36:8 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
  • Ps 81:13-16 : 13 Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! 14 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever. 16 But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." A Psalm by Asaph.

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  • 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.

  • 13 Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

  • 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.

  • 24 But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

  • 22 Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'

  • 16 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

  • 9 You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

  • 13 All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.

  • 22 "There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."

  • 18 when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.

  • 11 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

  • 29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

  • Ps 93:3-4
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    3 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

    4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

  • 15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence." You refused,

  • 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

  • Isa 32:17-18
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    17 The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

    18 My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

  • 15 For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

  • 19 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

  • 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 28:1-2
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    1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth:

    2 and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.

  • 12 For thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.

  • 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

  • 5 What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?

  • 15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.

  • 9 "For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

  • 27 the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;

  • 5 if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.

  • Isa 58:13-14
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    13 "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words:

    14 then you shall delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father:" for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.

  • 12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

  • 10 Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

  • 3 You will keep whoever's mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

  • 21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there.

  • 7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

  • 5 Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.

  • 8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "Yahweh's word which you have spoken is good." He said moreover, "For there will be peace and truth in my days."

  • 21 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice.

  • 18 "Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart."

  • 22 But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

  • 5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

  • 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

  • 12 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also worked all our works for us.

  • 32 "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

  • 8 Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard.

  • 8 Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.

  • 3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

  • 8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,