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 by the way that you should go. O that you had hearkened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: Your descendants also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. (Isaiah 48:17-19)