Isa. 55:1 |
Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, / And you who have no money; / Come, buy and eat; / Yes, come, buy wine and milk / Without money and without price. |
Isa. 55:2 |
Why do you spend money for what is not bread, / And the result of your labor for what does not satisfy? / Hear Me attentively, and eat what is good, / And let your soul delight itself in fatness. |
Isa. 55:3 |
Incline your ear and come to Me; / Hear, so that your soul may live; / And I will make an eternal covenant with you, / Even the sure mercies [shown] to David. |
Isa. 55:4 |
Indeed, I have given Him as a Witness to the peoples, / A Leader and a Commander to the peoples. |
Isa. 55:5 |
Indeed, you will call a nation that you do not know, / And a nation that does not know you will run to you, / Because of Jehovah your God, even the Holy One of Israel, / For He has glorified you. |
Isa. 55:6 |
Seek Jehovah while He may be found; / Call upon Him while He is near. |
Isa. 55:7 |
Let the wicked forsake his way, / And the evildoer, his thoughts; / And let him return to Jehovah, and He will have compassion on him; / And to our God, for He will pardon abundantly. |
Isa. 55:8 |
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, / And your ways are not My ways, declares Jehovah. |
Isa. 55:9 |
For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, / So My ways are higher than your ways, / And My thoughts [higher] than your thoughts. |
Isa. 55:10 |
For just as the rain comes down / And the snow from heaven, / And does not return there, / Until it waters the earth / And makes it bear and sprout forth, / That it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater; |
Isa. 55:11 |
So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; / It will not return to Me vainly, / But it will accomplish what I delight in, / And it will prosper in the matter to which I have sent it. |
Isa. 55:12 |
For you will go out with rejoicing, / And you will be led forth in peace; / The mountains and the hills / Will break forth before you with a ringing shout, / And all the trees of the field will clap [their] hands. |
Isa. 55:13 |
In place of the thornbush, the fir tree will come up; / In place of the brier, the myrtle will come up; / And it will be to Jehovah as a name, / As an eternal sign that will not be cut off. |