14. All you, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
15. I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16. Come near unto me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I:
17. Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;
18. O that you had hearkened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: