17. Thus says the Lord,your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:I am the Lord your God,who teaches you to profit,who leads you in the way you should go.
18. Oh, that you had listened to My commandments!Then your peace would have been as a riverand your righteousness as the waves of the sea.
19. Your descendants also would have been as the sandand your offspring like grains of sand;their name would not have been cut offnor destroyed from before Me.
20. Go forth from Babylon!Flee from the Chaldeans!With a voice of singing declare,proclaim this,utter it even to the ends of the earth;say, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”
21. They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts;He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them;He also split the rock,and the waters gushed out.
22. “There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”