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18 Oh, that you had listened to My commandments!
    Then your peace would have been as a river
    and your righteousness as the waves of the sea.
19 Your descendants also would have been as the sand
    and your offspring like grains of sand;
their name would not have been cut off
    nor 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.”

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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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