18. Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river,and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
19. your offspring would have been like the sand,and your descendants like its grains;their name would never be cut offor destroyed from before me.”
20. Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea,declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it,send it out to the end of the earth;say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
21. They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock;he split the rock and the water gushed out.
22. “There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”