49then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause, 50and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them 51(for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace), 52that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You. 53“For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord GOD.”

      9“For the sake of My name I delay My wrath,
            And for My praise I restrain it for you,
            In order not to cut you off.
      10“Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;
            I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
      11“For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act;
            For how can My name be profaned?
            And My glory I will not give to another.
      12“Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called;
            I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.
      13“Surely My hand founded the earth,
            And My right hand spread out the heavens;
            When I call to them, they stand together.
      14“Assemble, all of you, and listen!
            Who among them has declared these things?
            The LORD loves him; he will carry out His good pleasure on Babylon,
            And His arm will be against the Chaldeans.
      15“I, even I, have spoken; indeed I have called him,
            I have brought him, and He will make his ways successful.
      16“Come near to Me, listen to this:
            From the first I have not spoken in secret,
            From the time it took place, I was there.
            And now the Lord GOD has sent Me, and His Spirit.”
      17Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
            “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit,
            Who leads you in the way you should go.
      18“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
            Then your well-being would have been like a river,
            And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
      19“Your descendants would have been like the sand,
            And your offspring like its grains;
            Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”
      20Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!
            Declare with the sound of joyful shouting, proclaim this,
            Send it out to the end of the earth;
            Say, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob.”
      21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts.
            He made the water flow out of the rock for them;
            He split the rock and the water gushed forth.
      22“There is no peace for the wicked,” says the LORD.