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."