Isaiah 48:18-20

Contemporary English Version

¹⁸ How I wish that you
    had obeyed my commands!
Your success and good fortune
would then have overflowed
    like a flooding river.
¹⁹ Your nation would be blessed
    with more people
than there are grains of sand
    along the seashore.
And I would never have let
    your country be destroyed.