18. If only you had obeyed my commandments,prosperity would have flowed to you like a river,deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.
19. Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand,and your children like its granules.Their name would not have been cut offand eliminated from my presence.
20. Leave Babylon!Flee from the Babylonians!Announce it with a shout of joy!Make this known!Proclaim it throughout the earth!Say, ‘The Lord protects his servant Jacob.
21. They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions;he makes water flow out of a rock for them;he splits open a rock and water flows out.’
22. There will be no prosperity for the wicked,” says the Lord.