Isaiah 48:18

New American Bible - revised edition

If only you would attend to my commandments, your peace would be like a river, your vindication like the waves of the sea,

Cross References

Psalm 119:165

Lovers of your law have much peace; for them there is no stumbling block.

Psalm 36:8

How precious is your mercy, O God! The children of Adam take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Isaiah 33:21

Indeed the Lord in majesty will be there for us a place of rivers and wide streams on which no galley may go, where no majestic ship may pass.

Isaiah 42:24

Who was it that gave Jacob to be despoiled, Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned? In his ways they refused to walk, his teaching they would not heed.

Isaiah 45:8

Let justice descend, you heavens, like dew from above, like gentle rain let the clouds drop it down. Let the earth open and salvation bud forth; let righteousness spring up with them! I, the Lord, have created this.

Isaiah 54:13

All your children shall be taught by the Lord; great shall be the peace of your children.

Isaiah 61:10

I will rejoice heartily in the Lord, my being exults in my God; For he has clothed me with garments of salvation, and wrapped me in a robe of justice, Like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 61:11

As the earth brings forth its shoots, and a garden makes its seeds spring up, So will the Lord God make justice spring up, and praise before all the nations.

Isaiah 62:1

For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, Until her vindication shines forth like the dawn and her salvation like a burning torch.

Isaiah 66:12

For thus says the Lord: I will spread prosperity over her like a river, like an overflowing torrent, the wealth of nations. You shall nurse, carried in her arms, cradled upon her knees;

Hosea 10:12

“Sow for yourselves justice, reap the reward of loyalty; Break up for yourselves a new field, for it is time to seek the Lord, till he comes and rains justice upon you.”

Amos 5:24

Rather let justice surge like waters, and righteousness like an unfailing stream.

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her young under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of food and drink, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit;

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they had insight they would realize this, they would understand their end:

Deuteronomy 5:29

Would that they might always be of such a mind, to fear me and to keep all my commandments! Then they and their descendants would prosper forever.