Isaiah 48:18
If only you had paid attention to My commandments,
What it says
If they had obeyed, their peace would have been like a river and their righteousness like the sea's waves.
What it is doing
This verse expresses the forfeited abundance attached to covenant obedience.
In context
12Listen to Me, O Jacob, 13Surely My own hand founded the earth, 14Come together, all of you, and listen: 15I, even I, have spoken; 16Come near to Me and listen to this: 17Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, 18If only you had paid attention to My commandments, 19Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, 20Leave Babylon! 21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; 22“There is no peace,” says the LORD,