18 Oh, that you had listened to My commandments!Then your peace would have been as a riverand your righteousness as the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants also would have been as the sandand your offspring like grains of sand;their name would not have been cut offnor destroyed from before Me.
20 Go forth from Babylon!Flee from the Chaldeans!With a voice of singing declare,proclaim this,utter it even to the ends of the earth;say, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”
21 They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts;He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them;He also split the rock,and the waters gushed out.
22 “There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”