48:18 If only you had obeyed my 1 commandments,
prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, 2
deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea. 3
59:19 In the west, people respect 4 the Lord’s reputation; 5
in the east they recognize his splendor. 6
For he comes like a rushing 7 stream
driven on by wind sent from the Lord. 8
66:12 For this is what the Lord says:
“Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river,
the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks. 9
You will nurse from her breast 10 and be carried at her side;
you will play on her knees.
1 tn Heb “paid attention to” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “had listened to.”
2 tn Heb “like a river your peace would have been.” שָׁלוֹם (shalom) probably refers here to the peace and prosperity which God promised in return for obedience to the covenant.
3 tn Heb “and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.” צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah) probably refers here to divine deliverance from enemies. See v. 19.
4 tc Heb “fear.” A few medieval Hebrew
5 tn Heb “and they fear from the west the name of the Lord.”
6 tn Heb “and from the rising of the sun his splendor.”
7 tn Heb “narrow”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “pent-up.”
8 tn Heb “the wind of the Lord drives it on.” The term רוּחַ (ruakh) could be translated “breath” here (see 30:28).
7 tn Heb “Look, I am ready to extend to her like a river prosperity [or “peace”], and like an overflowing stream, the riches of nations.”
8 tn The words “from her breast” are supplied in the translation for clarification (see v. 11).