48:17 This is what the Lord, your protector, 1 says,
the Holy One of Israel: 2
“I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you how to succeed,
who leads you in the way you should go.
48:18 If only you had obeyed my 3 commandments,
prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, 4
deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea. 5
48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, 6
and your children 7 like its granules.
Their name would not have been cut off
and eliminated from my presence. 8
48:20 Leave Babylon!
Flee from the Babylonians!
Announce it with a shout of joy!
Make this known!
Proclaim it throughout the earth! 9
Say, ‘The Lord protects 10 his servant Jacob.
48:21 They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions;
he makes water flow out of a rock for them;
he splits open a rock and water flows out.’ 11
48:22 There will be no prosperity for the wicked,” says the Lord.