Isaiah 55
55
The Lord's Invitation
1 #
Rev 21.6; 22.17. If you are thirsty,
come and drink water!
If you don't have any money,
come, eat what you want!
Drink wine and milk
without paying a cent.
2 #
Si 24.19-22. Why waste your money
on what really isn't food?
Why work hard for something
that doesn't satisfy?
Listen carefully to me,
and you will enjoy
the very best foods.
3 #
Ac 13.34. Pay close attention!
Come to me and live.
I will promise you
the eternal love and loyalty
that I promised David.
4I made him the leader and ruler
of the nations;
he was my witness to them.
5You will call out to nations
you have never known.
And they have never known you,
but they will come running
because I am the Lord,
the holy God of Israel,
and I have honored you.
God's Words Are Powerful
6Turn to the Lord!
He can still be found.
Call out to God! He is near.
7Give up your evil ways
and your evil thoughts.
Return to the Lord our God.
He will be merciful
and forgive your sins.
8The Lord says:
“My thoughts and my ways
are not like yours.
9Just as the heavens
are higher than the earth,
my thoughts and my ways
are higher than yours.
10 #
2 Co 9.10. “Rain and snow fall from the sky.
But they don't return
without watering the earth
that produces seeds to plant
and grain to eat.
11That's how it is with my words.
They don't return to me
without doing everything
I send them to do.”
God's People Will Celebrate
12When you are set free,
you will celebrate
and travel home in peace.
Mountains and hills will sing
as you pass by,
and trees will clap.
13Cypress and myrtle trees
will grow in fields
once covered by thorns.
And then those trees will stand
as a lasting witness
to the glory of the Lord.
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Isaiah 55
55
Invitation to True Rewards
1“Ho! Everyone thirsty, come to the waters!
And whoever has no money, come, buy and eat,
and come, buy without money,
wine and milk without price!
2Why do you weigh out money for what is not food,
and your labor for what cannot satisfy?#Literally “what is not for satiation”
Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,
and let your soul take pleasure in rich#Literally “fatty” food.
3Extend your ear, and come to me!
Listen so that#Or “and” your soul may live,
and I will make#Literally “cut” an everlasting covenant with#or “for” you,
the enduring proofs of the mercies shown to#Literally “mercy of” David.
4Look! I made#Or “gave” him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and a commander for the peoples.
5Look! You shall call a nation that you do not know,
and a nation that does not know you shall run to you,
because of Yahweh your God,
and the holy one of Israel, for he has glorified you.”
6Seek Yahweh while he lets himself be found;#Literally “in his letting himself be found”
call him while he is#Literally “in his being” near.
7Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the man of sin his thoughts.
And let him return to Yahweh, that#Or “and” he may take pity on him,
and to our God, for he will forgive manifold.#Literally “make numerous to”
8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways,”
declares#Literally “declaration of” Yahweh.
9“For as the heavens are higher#Literally “high” than the earth,
so my ways are higher#Literally “high” than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10For just as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
and they do not return there
except they have watered the earth thoroughly
and cause it to bring forth and sprout,
and give seed to the sower
and bread to the eater,
11so shall be my word that goes out from my mouth.
It shall not return to me without success,
but shall accomplish#Or “do” what I desire
and be successful in the thing for which I sent it.
12For you shall go out in joy,
and you shall be led in peace.
The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you, rejoicing
and all the trees of the field shall clap hands.#Hebrew “hand”
13Instead of the thorn bush, the juniper shall go up;
instead of the brier, the myrtle shall go up,
and it shall serve as a memorial to Yahweh,
for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
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