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18 You should have obeyed my commands.
Then you would have had peace in your lives,
    like a river that runs quietly.
You would have been safe and well,
    like the strong waves in the sea.
19 You would have had many descendants,
    as much as the sand on the shore of the sea.
I would not need to destroy them.
    Their family name would continue for ever.’

20 Now leave Babylon as free people!
    No longer serve the Babylonians!
Shout the news with joy!
    Tell everyone about it, all over the world.
Tell them that the Lord has redeemed his people,
    his servants, the Israelites.

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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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18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

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