God promises to rescue his people from Babylon

14 Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, is the one who rescues you; and this is what he says:

“For your sake, I will send an army to attack Babylon.

They will force the people of that city to flee in ships which they have been proud of.

15 I am Yahweh, your Holy One,

the one who caused Israel to become a nation, and the one who is really your king.

16 I am Yahweh, the one who opened a path through the water,

making a road through the Red Sea.

17 Then I summoned the great army of Egypt

to come with all their chariots and horses.

But when they tried to pursue my people,

I caused the waves to flow over them and they drowned;

their lives ended like the light of a candle ends when someone [MET] snuffs out the wick.

18 But do not think only about what happened in the past, long ago [DOU].

19 Instead, consider the new thing that I am going to do.

I have already started to do it;

can you see it?

I am going to make a road through the desert.

And I will cause there to be streams in the wasteland/desert.

20 The jackals/wolves and owls and other wild creatures will thank me

for giving them water in the desert.

I will cause streams to appear in the dry desert

in order that my people, the ones whom I have chosen, will have water;

21 I will do that for the people whom I have created and chosen to belong to me,

and some day they will cause many others to praise me.