...a past event is alluded to, then the verb is rendered by the pluperfect ; as, ' 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.1 Isai. xlviii. 18. 5. When by the operation of the preceding...

...reluctance. ".0 that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! 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.'' — But may not God abandon those who have renounced him?...

...thpu wouldst deal very treacherously, aud wast called a transgressor from the womb. 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.' The prayer of David was, ' Give me understanding, and I shall...

...which teacheth thee to PROFIT, which LEADETH thee by the way that thou shouldest go 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." " Awake, put on thy strength." " Wherefore do ye spend money...

...which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldst go. 0 that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea!' All the privation of happiness men now sustain,— all the...

...What was saido>f Israel as a people, will apply here to individual experience. " O that thou hailst hearkened to my commandments; then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness like the waves of the sea." You hear much of the hidings of God's face. The expression...

...is by faith, Heb. xi. 7. — Thus says the Lord, thy Redeemer ;— -O that thoa hadst hearkened unto my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea, Isa. xlviii. 17, 18.— My righteousness shall answer fur me...

...to folly. In the commission of sin there can be no peace. Isa. xlviii. 18 and 22 : O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, then had thy peace been as a river. There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.* The next observation was made by Henry Villeroi,...

...captivity, for they would not turn to the Lord their God, that they might be healed. ' 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!' And how well does this appeal agree with our Savior's exquisitely...

...of her womb? Yea they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. And again, he saith, O that thou had't hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the wave* of the sea. ( saiah xlviii. 18.) And now my friends, we must confess that...