CHAPTER 55
“Come,
all of you
who thirst,
come
to the waters;
and you
without
money,
come,
buy,
and eat!
Come,
buy
wine
and milk,
without
money
and without
cost!
Why
spend
money
on that which is not
bread,
and your labor
on that which does not
satisfy?
Listen
carefully
to Me,
and eat
what is good,
and your soul
will delight
in the richest of foods.
Incline
your ear
and come
to Me;
listen,
so that your soul
may live.
I will make
an everlasting
covenant with you,
my loving devotion
assured
to David.
Surely
you will summon
a nation
you do not
know,
and nations
who do not
know you
will run
to you.
For
the LORD
your God,
the Holy
One of Israel,
has bestowed glory on you.”
Let the wicked man
forsake
his own way
and the unrighteous
man
his own thoughts;
let him return
to
the LORD,
that He may have compassion,
and to
our God,
for
He will freely
pardon.
“For
as the heavens
are higher
than the earth,
so
My ways
are higher
than your ways
and My thoughts
than your thoughts.
For
just as
rain
and snow
fall
from
heaven
and do not
return
without
watering
the earth,
making it bud
and sprout,
and providing
seed
to sow
and food
to eat,
so
My word
that
proceeds
from My mouth
will not
return
to Me
empty,
but
it will accomplish
what
I please,
and it will prosper
where
I send it.
You will indeed
go out
with joy
and be led forth
in peace;
the mountains
and hills
will burst
into song
before you,
and all
the trees
of the field
will clap
their hands.
Instead of
the thornbush,
a cypress
will grow,
and instead of
the brier,
a myrtle
will spring up;
they will make
a name
for the LORD
as an everlasting
sign,
never
to be destroyed.”