Isaiah 48:18

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 

Isaiah 59:19

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 

Isaiah 66:12

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.

[48:18]  ¹ tn Heb “paid attention to” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “had listened to.”

[48:18]  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.

[48:18]  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.

[59:19]  ⁴ tc Heb “fear.” A few medieval Hebrew mss read “see.”

[59:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they fear from the west the name of the Lord.”

[59:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “and from the rising of the sun his splendor.”

[59:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “narrow”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “pent-up.”

[59:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “the wind of the Lord drives it on.” The term רוּחַ (ruakh) could be translated “breath” here (see 30:28).

[66:12]  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.”

[66:12]  ⁸ tn The words “from her breast” are supplied in the translation for clarification (see v. 11).