Isaiah 48:18-20

New Living Translation

¹⁸ Oh, that you had listened to my commands!
    Then you would have had peace flowing like a gentle river
    and righteousness rolling over you like waves in the sea.
¹⁹ Your descendants would have been like the sands along the seashore—
    too many to count!
There would have been no need for your destruction,
    or for cutting off your family name.”

²⁰ Yet even now, be free from your captivity!
    Leave Babylon and the Babylonians.^[a]
Sing out this message!
    Shout it to the ends of the earth!
The Lord has redeemed his servants,
    the people of Israel.^[b]