18 If only you had paid attention to my commands.
Then your peace would have been like a river,(A)
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.(B)
19 Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand,(C)
and the offspring of your body like its grains;
their name would not be cut off
or eliminated from my presence.

20 Leave Babylon,
flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with a shout of joy,
proclaim this,
let it go out to the end of the earth;
announce,
“The Lord has redeemed his servant(D) Jacob!”

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