16. “Come near to me and hear this:“From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;from the time that it happened, I was there.”Now the Lord GOD has sent me,with his Spirit.
17. the Lord,your Redeemer,the Holy One of Israel says:“I am the Lord your God,who teaches you to profit,who leads you by the way that you should go.
18. Oh that you had listened to my commandments!Then your peace would have been like a river,and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19. Your offspring also would have been as the sand,and the descendants of your body like its grains.His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”
20. Leave Babylon!Flee from the Kasdim!With a voice of singing announce this,tell it even to the end of the earth:say, “the Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
21. They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts.He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them.He split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
22. “There is no peace”, says the Lord, “for the wicked.”