Isaiah 48:12-22 - Yahweh Frees Israel
12 "Listen to these things, Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called. I am the One: I am the first, I am even the last. 13 Moreover, my hands laid the earth's foundation, and my right hand spread out the heavens. I call out to them, and they stand up together. 14 Let all of them come together and listen: Who is there among them that could declare these things? "The LORD loves me, and he will accomplish my purpose against Babylon; his arm will be against the Chaldeans. 15 I Yes, I! have spoken; indeed, I've called and I've brought him, and he will make his path successful. 16 Draw near to me, and listen to this: "From the beginning I haven't spoken in secret; at the time it happened, I was there.' And now the LORD God, and his Spirit, has sent me.
17 "This is what the LORD says, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who directs you in the path by which you should go. 18 Now if only you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your success like the waves of the sea. 19 Your descendants would've been like the sand, and your offspring like its numberless grains. Their name wouldn't have been cut off or annihilated out of my reach.
20 "Go out from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans! With happy shouts, announce and proclaim this to the ends of the earth: Say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!' 21 They didn't thirst when he led him through the desolate places. He made water gush from a rock for them; he split open the rock, and water gushed out. 22 "But there is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."