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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.
21 When he led them through the desert,
    they did not become thirsty.
He broke open a rock for them,
    so that water poured out.
They could drink as much as they needed.

22 But the Lord says, ‘Wicked people will have no peace in their lives.’

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20 Leave Babylon,
    flee(A) from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy(B)
    and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;(C)
    say, “The Lord has redeemed(D) his servant Jacob.”
21 They did not thirst(E) when he led them through the deserts;
    he made water flow(F) for them from the rock;
he split the rock
    and water gushed out.(G)

22 “There is no peace,”(H) says the Lord, “for the wicked.”(I)

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