Isaiah 48:18

The Lord's Plan For His People

¹⁷ Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
“I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit,
Who leads you in the way you should go.
¹⁸ “If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your well-being would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
¹⁹ “Your descendants would have been like the sand,
And your offspring like its grains;
Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”

Waves of the Sea

Deuteronomy 32:29

“Would that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would discern their future!

Isaiah 66:12

For thus says the Lord, “Behold, I extend peace to her like a river,
And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
And you will be nursed, you will be carried on the hip and fondled on the knees.

Deuteronomy 5:29

Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, that it may be well with them and with their sons forever!

Psalm 119:165

Those who love Your law have great peace,
And nothing causes them to stumble.

Psalm 81:13-16

“Oh that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!

Isaiah 32:15-18

Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high,
And the wilderness becomes a fertile field,
And the fertile field is considered as a forest.

Amos 5:24

“But let justice roll down like waters
And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Psalm 36:8

They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house;
And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights.

Isaiah 45:8

“Drip down, O heavens, from above,
And let the clouds pour down righteousness;
Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit,
And righteousness spring up with it.
I, the Lord, have created it.

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

Luke 19:41-42

When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,

Romans 14:17

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.