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19 Your descendants would be as numerous as grains of sand,
    and I would have made sure they were never destroyed.”

20 (A)Go out from Babylon, go free!
Shout the news gladly; make it known everywhere:
    “The Lord has saved his servant Israel!”
21 When the Lord led his people through a hot, dry desert,
    they did not suffer from thirst.
He made water come from a rock for them;
    he split the rock open, 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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