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19 Your nation would be blessed
    with more people
than there are grains of sand
    along the seashore.
And I would never have let
    your country be destroyed.

20 (A) Now leave Babylon!
    Celebrate as you go.
Be happy and shout
    for everyone to hear,
“The Lord has rescued
    his servant Israel!
21 He led us through the desert
and made water flow from a rock
    to satisfy our thirst.

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19 Your descendants(A) would have been like the sand,(B)
    your children like its numberless grains;(C)
their name would never be blotted out(D)
    nor destroyed from before me.”

20 Leave Babylon,
    flee(E) from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy(F)
    and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;(G)
    say, “The Lord has redeemed(H) his servant Jacob.”
21 They did not thirst(I) when he led them through the deserts;
    he made water flow(J) for them from the rock;
he split the rock
    and water gushed out.(K)

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