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If onlyלוּאyou had paid attentionהִקְשַׁבְתָּto my commandments!לְמִצְוֺתָיThenוַyour peaceשְׁלוֹמֶךָwould have beenיְהִיlike the river,כַנָּהָרand your righteousnessוְצִדְקָתְךָlike the wavesכְּגַלֵּיof the sea;הַיָּם
Isaiah 48:18
Study it in the app“If only you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like the river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 48:18, word by word
- If onlyלוּאlu
if only
A word that voices a strong wish that something were otherwise: «if only…».
Where else “lu” appears- you had paid attentionהִקְשַׁבְתָּhikshavta
pay attention, listen
To pay attention, to listen carefully, to prick up the ears. It is more than hearing: it is heeding what is said.
Where else “hikshavta” appears- to my commandmentsמִצְוֺתָmitsvota
commandment
An order of God that must be kept.
Where else “mitsvota” appears- your peaceשְׁלוֹמֶshelome
peace
Living without war or quarrels, in harmony.
Where else “shelome” appears- would have beenיְהִיyehi
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “yehi” appears- like the riverנָּהָרnahar
river
River, stream; above all the Euphrates ("the River") or the Nile.
Where else “nahar” appears- and your righteousnessצִדְקָתְtsidkat
righteous deeds
Doing what is just, upright deeds.
Where else “tsidkat” appears- like the wavesגַלֵּיgale
wave
The rising swell of the sea.
Where else “gale” appears- of the seaיָּםyam
sea
The sea, or a large lake.
Where else “yam” appears
The context
17Thus says YHWH, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am YHWH your Elohim, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way that you should go.
18 · This verse (above)
19and your offspring would have been like the sand, and the offshoots of your inward parts like its grains; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.”