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19 Then you would have become as numerous as the sands along the seashores of the world, too many to count, and there would have been no need for your destruction.

20 Yet even now, be free from your captivity! Leave Babylon, singing as you go; shout to the ends of the earth that the Lord has redeemed his servants, the Jews. 21 They were not thirsty when he led them through the deserts; he divided the rock, and water gushed out for them to drink.

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19 Your descendants(A) would have been like the sand,(B)
    your children like its numberless grains;(C)
their name would never be blotted out(D)
    nor destroyed from before me.”

20 Leave Babylon,
    flee(E) from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy(F)
    and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;(G)
    say, “The Lord has redeemed(H) his servant Jacob.”
21 They did not thirst(I) when he led them through the deserts;
    he made water flow(J) for them from the rock;
he split the rock
    and water gushed out.(K)

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