Verse 18

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.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 66:12 : 12 For this is what the LORD says:“Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river, the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks. You will nurse from her breast and be carried at her side; you will play on her knees.
  • Deut 32:29 : 29 I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”
  • Ps 119:165 : 165 Those who love your law are completely secure; nothing causes them to stumble.
  • Deut 5:29 : 29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
  • Isa 32:15-18 : 15 This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the wilderness will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest. 16 Justice will settle down in the wilderness and fairness will live in the orchard. 17 Fairness will produce peace and result in lasting security. 18 My people will live in peaceful settlements, in secure homes, and in safe, quiet places.
  • Amos 5:24 : 24 Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 Judgment on Israel“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!
  • Luke 19:41-42 : 41 Jesus Weeps for Jerusalem under Judgment Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it, 42 saying,“If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Isa 45:8 : 8 O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the LORD, create it.
  • Ps 36:8 : 8 They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.
  • Ps 81:13-16 : 13 If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands! 14 Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and attack their adversaries.” 15 (May those who hate the LORD cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!) 16 “I would feed Israel the best wheat, and would satisfy your appetite with honey from the rocky cliffs.”