Isaiah 55
1 Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2 Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good; then you will delight in rich food.
3 Incline your ear and come to me; listen, and you will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you: the faithful acts of steadfast love promised to David.
4 Look: I have made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander of the peoples.
5 Look: you will summon a nation you do not know, and a nation that does not know you will run to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
6 Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked abandon his way, and the unjust man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, who will have compassion on him, and to our God, who freely forgives.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways, declares the LORD.
9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain and snow come down from heaven and do not return there without soaking the earth, making it sprout and flourish, and giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 so my word will be that which goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will do what I desire and succeed in the purpose for which I sent it.
12 For you will go out with joy and be led in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
13 In place of the thornbush, the cypress will grow; in place of the nettle, the myrtle will grow. This will bring renown to the LORD, an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.
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