48:19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, 1
and your children 2 like its granules.
Their name would not have been cut off
and eliminated from my presence. 3
48:20 Leave Babylon!
Flee from the Babylonians!
Announce it with a shout of joy!
Make this known!
Proclaim it throughout the earth! 4
Say, ‘The Lord protects 5 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.’ 6
48:22 There will be no prosperity for the wicked,” says the Lord.