48:16 Approach me! Listen to this!

From the very first I have not spoken in secret;

when it happens, ¹  I am there.”

So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit. ² 

48:17 This is what the Lord, your protector, ³  says,

the Holy One of Israel: ⁴ 

“I am the Lord your God,

who teaches you how to succeed,

who leads you in the way you should go.

48:18 If only you had obeyed my ⁵  commandments,

prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, ⁶ 

deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea. ⁷ 

48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, ⁸ 

and your children ⁹  like its granules.

Their name would not have been cut off

and eliminated from my presence. ¹⁰