Isaiah 48:18 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“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:”

Isaiah 48:18 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Isaiah 48:18 in 6 Bible Translations

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Isaiah 48:18 WEB — 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.”

Isaiah 48:18 — World English Bible

Isaiah 48:18 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“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: ”

Isaiah 48:18 — American Standard Version

Isaiah 48:18 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,”

Isaiah 48:18 — Young's Literal Translation

Isaiah 48:18 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“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; ”

Isaiah 48:18 — Darby Translation

Isaiah 48:18 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“Oh that thou haddest hearkened to my commandements! then had thy prosperitie bene as the floude, and thy righteousnesse as the waues of the sea.”

Isaiah 48:18 — Geneva Bible

Isaiah 48:18 in Context — Isaiah 48

16 Come 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.

17 Thus 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.

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:

19 Thy 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.

20 Go 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.

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What Does Isaiah 48:18 Mean?

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