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19 If you had obeyed me,
    you would have had as many children as there are grains of sand.
And they would always have been mine
    and would never have been destroyed.”

20 My people, leave Babylon!
    My people, run from the Chaldeans!
Tell the news with joy.
    Spread the news around the world.
Tell them,
    “The Lord rescued his servant Jacob.”
21 They never got thirsty as he led them through the desert,
    because he made water flow from a rock.
He split the rock,
    and water flowed out.

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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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