Isaiah 48:16-18

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^16 (A)Draw near to me, hear this:
    from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,
    from the time it came to be I have been there.”
And now ^(B)the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.
¹⁷ Thus says the Lord,
    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
    who teaches you to profit,
    who leads you in the way you should go.
^18 (C)Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
    ^(D)Then your peace would have been like a river,
    and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;