Isaiah 48:12-22

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¹⁴ “Assemble, all of you, and listen!
    ^(E)Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him;
    ^(F)he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,
    and his arm shall be against ^(G)the Chaldeans.
^15 (H)I, even I, have spoken and called him;
    I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
^16 (I)Draw near to me, hear this:
    from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,
    from the time it came to be I have been there.”
And now ^(J)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,
    who teaches you to profit,
    who leads you in the way you should go.
^18 (K)Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
    ^(L)Then your peace would have been like a river,
    and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
^19 (M)your offspring would have been like the sand,
    and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
    or destroyed from before me.”

^20 (N)Go out from Babylon, flee from ^(O)Chaldea,
    declare this ^(P)with a shout of joy, proclaim it,
send it out to the end of the earth;
    say, ^(Q)“The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
^21 (R)They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;
    ^(S)he made water flow for them from the rock;
    he split the rock and the water gushed out.

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