Old Testament · Prophets

Isaiah chapter 55

“Come, everyone who is — come to the ! You who have no money— come, buy and eat! Come, buy without money, without cost.”Why spend money on what isn’t ? Why work so hard for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is truly good— let your whole being .Turn your ear and come to me; listen, and you will . I will make an with you— the same I promised David.Look—I made him a to the peoples, a of nations.Look, you will call out to nations you don’t know, and nations that don’t know you will come running to you, because of your God, , because he has made you . Yahweh while he can be found; call out to him while he is .Let the abandon their way of life, and the destructive person their . Let them to Yahweh—he will have compassion on them— and to our God, because he .“My are nothing like your thoughts, and your are nothing like my ways,” declares Yahweh.“As high as the is above the earth— that’s how far my ways are above your ways and my thoughts above your thoughts.”Rain and snow fall from the sky and don’t return there without first the earth, making it sprout and bloom, giving seed to the farmer and to the hungry.That’s exactly how my works— when it goes out from my mouth it doesn’t come back to me . It accomplishes what I want and succeeds in what I sent it to do.You will go out with and be led forward in . The mountains and hills will burst into singing in front of you, and all the trees in the open country will .Instead of , will grow. Instead of nettles, will rise. This will stand as a for Yahweh, an that will never be erased.