Isaiah 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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Isaiah 55

God's Offer of Mercy

1 # Rev 21.6; 22.17 The LORD says,

“Come, everyone who is thirsty —

here is water!

Come, you that have no money —

buy corn and eat!

Come! Buy wine and milk —

it will cost you nothing!

2Why spend money on what does not satisfy?

Why spend your wages and still be hungry?

Listen to me and do what I say,

and you will enjoy the best food of all.

3 # Acts 13.34 “Listen now, my people, and come to me;

come to me, and you will have life!

I will make a lasting covenant with you

and give you the blessings I promised to David.

4I made him a leader and commander of nations,

and through him I showed them my power.

5Now you will summon foreign nations;

at one time they did not know you,

but now they will come running to join you!

I, the LORD your God, the holy God of Israel,

will make all this happen;

I will give you honour and glory.”

6Turn to the LORD and pray to him,

now that he is near.

7Let the wicked leave their way of life

and change their way of thinking.

Let them turn to the LORD, our God;

he is merciful and quick to forgive.

8“My thoughts,” says the LORD, “are not like yours,

and my ways are different from yours.

9As high as the heavens are above the earth,

so high are my ways and thoughts above yours.

10 # 2 Cor 9.10 “My word is like the snow and the rain

that come down from the sky to water the earth.

They make the crops grow

and provide seed for sowing and food to eat.

11So also will be the word that I speak —

it will not fail to do what I plan for it;

it will do everything I send it to do.

12“You will leave Babylon with joy;

you will be led out of the city in peace.

The mountains and hills will burst into singing,

and the trees will shout for joy.

13Cypress trees will grow where now there are briars;

myrtle trees will come up in place of thorns.

This will be a sign that will last for ever,

a reminder of what I, the LORD, have done.”

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