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19 You would have had many descendants,
    as much as the sand on the shore of the sea.
I would not need to destroy them.
    Their family name would continue for ever.’

20 Now leave Babylon as free people!
    No longer serve the Babylonians!
Shout the news with joy!
    Tell everyone about it, all over the world.
Tell them that the Lord has redeemed his people,
    his servants, the Israelites.
21 When he led them through the desert,
    they did not become thirsty.
He broke open a rock for them,
    so that water poured out.
They could drink as much as they needed.

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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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