Isaiah 48: 17-19

    Isaiah 48: 17-19

17 This is what the Lord says—

    your Redeemer, 

    the Holy One of Israel:

   "I am the Lord your God,

    who teaches you what is best 

    for you, who directs you 

    in the way you should   go.

18 If only you had paid attention 

    to my commands,

    your peace would have been 

    like a river,

    your well-being like the waves of the sea.

19 Your descendants would have been 

    like the sand,

    your children like its numberless grains;

    their name would never be blotted out

    nor destroyed from before me.”