Isaiah 48:17-19

New Century Version

¹⁷ This is what the Lord, who saves you,
    the Holy One of Israel, says:
“I am the Lord your God,
    who teaches you to do what is good,
    who leads you in the way you should go.
¹⁸ If you had obeyed me,
    you would have had peace like a full-flowing river.
    Good things would have flowed to you like the waves of the sea.
¹⁹ You would have had many children,
    as many as the grains of sand.
They would never have died out
    nor been destroyed.”