15. I myself have spoken, I have summoned him,I have brought him, and his way succeeds!
16. Come near to me and hear this!From the beginning I did not speak in secret;At the time it happens, I am there:“Now the Lord God has sent me, and his spirit.”
17. Thus says the Lord, your redeemer,the Holy One of Israel:I am the Lord, your God,teaching you how to prevail,leading you on the way you should go.
18. If only you would attend to my commandments,your peace would be like a river,your vindication like the waves of the sea,
19. Your descendants like the sand,the offspring of your loins like its grains,Their name never cut offor blotted out from my presence.