15. I, even I, have spoken; I have called him: I have brought him, and therefore his way shall be prospered.
16. Come near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was done, I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me and his Spirit.
17. Thus has the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel said: I am the Lord thy God who teaches thee to profit, who causes thee to walk by the way in which thou dost walk.
18. O that thou would look unto my commandments! Then thy peace would be as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
19. Thy seed would be as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name would never be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
20. Come out of Babylon, flee from among the Chaldeans. Give news of this with a voice of joy; publish this; take this news to the end of the earth; say, The Lord has redeemed his slave Jacob.
21. And they did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused water to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock, and the waters gushed out.
22. There is no peace for the wicked, said the Lord.