12. Listen to Me, Jacob, Israel whom I called: I am He; I am the first; I am also the last.
13. Surely My hand founded the earth, My right hand spread out the heavens. When I call to them, they stand together.
14. Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among them foretold these things? Adonai loves him. He will do His will against Babylon— His arm against the Chaldeans.
15. I, I have spoken, yes I called him. I will bring him, so his ways will succeed.
16. Draw near to Me, hear this: Since the beginning, I have not spoken in secret. From the time it existed, I was there. So now Adonai Elohim has sent Me, and His Ruach.”
17. Thus says Adonai, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am Adonai your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
18. If only you had listened to My commandments! then your peace would be like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19. Your seed would have been like sand, and your offspring like its grains. Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before Me.”
20. “Get out of Babylon, flee from Chaldea! With a shout of joy, proclaim this, send it out to the end of the earth, say: ‘Adonai has redeemed His servant Jacob!
21. They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts. He caused the water to flow out of the rock for them. He split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.’”
22. “There is no shalom,” says Adonai, “for the wicked.”