14. Gather yourselves, all of you, and listen.Who among you announced these things?"The Lord loves him.He will do what God wants with Babylonand with the descendants of Chaldea."
15. I, I have spoken and told himthe things that will happen to him;I will make him succeed.
16. Come close to me; listen to this:Since the very beginning I haven’t spoken in secret.Whenever anything happens, I am there.(And now the Lord God has sent me with his spirit.)
17. The Lord your redeemer,the holy one of Israel, proclaims:I am the Lord your Godwho teaches you for your own good,who leads you in the way you should go.