18 If only you had paid attention to My commands.Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains; their name would not be cut offor eliminated from My presence.
20 Leave Babylon,flee from the Chaldeans!Declare with a shout of joy,proclaim this,let it go out to the end of the earth;announce,“The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob! ”
21 They did not thirstwhen He led them through the deserts;He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.
22 “There is no peace for the wicked,” says the Lord.