Yahweh Frees Israel

• 12 and Israel,[fn]
• I am he. I am the first;
  • also I am the last.
  • 13 the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens;
    • when I summon[fn] them, they stand in position together.

14 Assemble, all of you, and hear!Who among them declared these things?

Yahweh loves him;

• he shall perform[fn] his wish against Babylon
  • and his arm against[fn]
  • 15  Indeed, I have called him.
• I have brought him,
  • and he will be successful in his way.
  • 16 the[fn] from the time[fn] there I have been;
    • And now the Lord Yahweh has sent me and his Spirit.”
• 17 Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel:“I am Yahweh your God,[fn] you to profit,
  • leads you in the way you should go.
• 18 O that you had listened attentively to my commandments!Then[fn] your prosperity would have been likea river,
  • and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
  • 19  and the descendants of your[fn] like its grains.[fn]
• It would not be cut off,
  • and its name would not be destroyed from my presence.”
  • 20  Flee from Chaldea!
• Proclaim[fn] it with a shout[fn] of rejoicing; proclaim[fn] this!
  • [fn] to the end of the earth;
    • say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
  • 21 when he led them through the deserts, they were not thirsty; he made water flow from the rock for them,
• and he split the rock,
  • and the water gushed out.

22 “There is no peace,” says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”