¹⁸ O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

¹² For thus said Jehovah: `Lo, I am stretching out to her peace as a river, And as an overflowing stream the honour of nations, And ye have sucked, on the side ye are carried, And on the knees ye are dandled.

²⁹ If they were wise -- They deal wisely `with' this; They attend to their latter end:

¹⁶⁵ Abundant peace have those loving Thy law, And they have no stumbling-block.

²⁹ O that their heart had been thus to them, to fear Me, and to keep My commands all the days, that it may be well with them, and with their sons -- to the age!

²⁴ And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.

¹⁵ Till emptied out on us is the Spirit from on high, And a wilderness hath become a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned.

¹⁶ And dwelt in the wilderness hath judgment, And righteousness in the fruitful field remaineth.

¹⁷ And a work of the righteousness hath been peace, And a service of the righteousness -- Keeping quiet and confidence unto the age.

¹⁸ And dwelt hath My people in a peaceful habitation, And in stedfast tabernacles, And in quiet resting-places.

¹⁷ for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

⁴¹ And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it,

⁴² saying -- `If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes.

³⁷ `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

⁸ Drop, ye heavens, from above, And clouds do cause righteousness to flow, Earth openeth, and they are fruitful, Salvation and righteousness spring up together, I, Jehovah, have prepared it.

¹³ O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.

¹⁴ As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,

¹⁵ Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.

¹⁶ He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And `with' honey from a rock I satisfy thee!

⁸ They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.