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18 I wish you would pay attention to my commands.
    If you did, peace would flow over you like a river.
    Godliness would sweep over you like the waves of the ocean.
19 Your family would be like the sand.
    Your children after you would be as many as the grains of sand by the sea.
    It would be impossible to count them.
I would always accept the members of your family line.
    They would never disappear or be destroyed.”

20 People of Israel, leave Babylon!
    Hurry up and get away from the Babylonians!
Here is what I want you to announce.
    Make it known with shouts of joy.
Send the news out from one end of the earth to the other.
    Say, “The Lord has set free 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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