12Hear me, Jacob, and Israel: I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.13Also my hand founded the earth, and my right hand extended the heavens; I am calling to them: stand together.14Gather together, all of you, and hear: who among them told these things? The LORD loved him; he will do his pleasure in Babylon, and his arm will do in Chaldea.15I have spoken; I also called him; I brought him and made his way prosper.16Draw near to me; hear this: I did not speak in secrecy from the time I have been there; and now the LORD has sent me, and his Spirit.17Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should walk.18If you had listened to my commandments, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.19And your offspring would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your belly like its grains; their name will not be cut off and will not be destroyed from before me.20Go out from Babylon; flee from Chaldea; with a voice of singing proclaim this; make it heard to the end of the earth; say: the LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.21They did not thirst in the desolate places; he led them; water from the rock flowed for them; and he split the rock, and waters flowed.22There is no peace, says the LORD, for the wicked.