Isaiah 48:17-19

Contemporary English Version

¹⁷     with this message:
People of Israel,
I am the holy Lord God,
    the one who rescues you.
For your own good,
I teach you, and I lead you
    along the right path.
¹⁸ How I wish that you
    had obeyed my commands!
Your success and good fortune
would then have overflowed
    like a flooding river.
¹⁹ Your nation would be blessed
    with more people
than there are grains of sand
    along the seashore.
And I would never have let
    your country be destroyed.