Isaiah 48:18
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.

Young's Literal Translation
O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

King James Bible
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Hebrew
If only
ל֥וּא (lū)
Preposition
Strong's 3863: If, would that!

you had paid attention
הִקְשַׁ֖בְתָּ (hiq·šaḇ·tā)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7181: To prick up the ears, hearken

to My commandments,
לְמִצְוֺתָ֑י (lə·miṣ·wō·ṯāy)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4687: Commandment

your peace
שְׁלוֹמֶ֔ךָ (šə·lō·w·me·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7965: Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace

would have been
וַיְהִ֤י (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

like a river,
כַנָּהָר֙ (ḵan·nā·hār)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5104: A stream, prosperity

and your righteousness
וְצִדְקָתְךָ֖ (wə·ṣiḏ·qā·ṯə·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

like waves
כְּגַלֵּ֥י (kə·ḡal·lê)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1530: Something rolled, a heap of stone, dung, a spring of water

of the sea.
הַיָּֽם׃ (hay·yām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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