December 15th : First reading If you had been alert to my commandments, your happiness would have been like a riverA reading from the book of Isaiah 48:17-19

December 15th :  First reading 

If you had been alert to my commandments, your happiness would have been like a river

A reading from the book of Isaiah 48:17-19 

Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

I, the Lord, your God, teach you what is good for you,

I lead you in the way that you must go.

If only you had been alert to my commandments,

your happiness would have been like a river,

your integrity like the waves of the sea.

Your children would have been numbered like the sand,

your descendants as many as its grains.

Never would your name have been cut off or blotted out before me.

The Word of the Lord.