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Isaiah 48:12-21

	Listen to me, O Jacob,
	and Israel, whom I called:
	I am He; I am the first,
	and I am the last.
	My hand laid the foundation of the earth,
	and my right hand spread out the heavens;
	when I summon them,
	they stand at attention.
	Assemble, all of you, and hear!
	Who among them has declared these things?
	The LORD loves him;
	he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,
	and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
	I, even I, have spoken and called him,
	I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
	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 GOD has sent me and his spirit.
	Thus says the LORD,
	your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
	I am the LORD your God,
	who teaches you for your own good,
	who leads you in the way you should go.
	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;
	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.
	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 LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!"
	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.