18 If only you had (A)paid attention to My commandments!
Then your [a](B)well-being would have been like a river,
And your (C)righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19 Your [b](D)descendants would have been like the sand,
And [c]your offspring like its grains;
(E)Their name would never be eliminated or destroyed from My presence.”

20 (F)Go out from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with the sound of (G)joyful shouting, proclaim this,
(H)Send it out to the end of the earth;
Say, “(I)The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:18 Or peace
  2. Isaiah 48:19 Lit seed
  3. Isaiah 48:19 Lit the offspring of your inward parts

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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