Isaiah 48:16-22

16“Come near to Me, listen to this:

From the beginning I have not spoken in secret,

From the time it took place, I was there.

And now the Lord God has sent Me, and His Spirit.”

¹⁷This is what the Lord says, He who is your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

“I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to benefit,

Who leads you in the way you should go.

18“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!

Then your well-being would have been like a river,

And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

19“Your descendants would have been like the sand,

And your offspring like its grains;

Their name would never be eliminated or destroyed from My presence.”

20Go out from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!

Declare with the sound of joyful shouting, proclaim this,

Send it out to the end of the earth;

Say, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”

21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts.

He made the water flow out of the rock for them;

He split the rock and the water gushed out.

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