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Listen to me, O Jacob,
and Israel, whom I called:
I am He; I am the first,
and I am the last.
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My hand laid the foundation of the earth,
and my right hand spread out the heavens;
when I summon them,
they stand at attention.
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Assemble, all of you, and hear!
Who among them has declared these things?
The
he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,
and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
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I, even I, have spoken and called him,
I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
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Draw near to me, hear this!
From the beginning I have not spoken in secret,
from the time it came to be I have been there.
And now the Lord
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Thus says the
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
I am the
who teaches you for your own good,
who leads you in the way you should go.
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O that you had paid attention to my commandments!
Then your prosperity would have been like a river,
and your success like the waves of the sea;
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your offspring would have been like the sand,
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me.
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Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea,
declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it,
send it forth to the end of the earth;
say, "The
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They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;
he made water flow for them from the rock;
he split open the rock and the water gushed out.
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"There is no peace," says the