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18 If you had obeyed me,
    then peace would have come to you
    like a full flowing river.
Good things would have come to you again and again,
    like the waves of the sea.
19 If you had obeyed me,
    you would have had as many children as there are grains of sand.
And they would always have been mine
    and would never have been destroyed.”

20 My people, leave Babylon!
    My people, run from the Chaldeans!
Tell the news with joy.
    Spread the news around the world.
Tell them,
    “The Lord rescued his servant Jacob.”

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18 If only you had paid attention(A) to my commands,
    your peace(B) would have been like a river,(C)
    your well-being(D) like the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants(E) would have been like the sand,(F)
    your children like its numberless grains;(G)
their name would never be blotted out(H)
    nor destroyed from before me.”

20 Leave Babylon,
    flee(I) from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy(J)
    and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;(K)
    say, “The Lord has redeemed(L) his servant Jacob.”

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