Isaiah 48:18

New English Translation

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.

Cross References

Psalm 119:165

Those who love your law are completely secure; nothing causes them to stumble.

Psalm 36:8

They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

Isaiah 33:21

Instead the Lord will rule there as our mighty king. Rivers and wide streams will flow through it; no war galley will enter; no large ships will sail through.

Isaiah 42:24

Who handed Jacob over to the robber? Who handed Israel over to the looters? Was it not the Lord, against whom we sinned? They refused to follow his commands; they disobeyed his law.

Isaiah 45:8

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.

Isaiah 54:13

All your children will be followers of the Lord, and your children will enjoy great prosperity.

Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; I will be overjoyed because of my God. For he clothes me in garments of deliverance; he puts on me a robe symbolizing vindication. I look like a bridegroom when he wears a turban as a priest would; I look like a bride when she puts on her jewelry.

Isaiah 61:11

For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the sovereign Lord will cause deliverance to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.

Isaiah 62:1

“For the sake of Zion I will not be silent; for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines brightly and her deliverance burns like a torch.”

Isaiah 66:12

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.

Hosea 10:12

Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

Amos 5:24

Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.

Matthew 23:37

“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!

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Deuteronomy 32:29

I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”

Deuteronomy 5:29

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.