| Isaiah
(Yeshayahu) 55
"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 cost. Why spend money on what
is not bread, and your labor on what does not
satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what
is good, and your soul will delight in the richest
of fare. Give ear and come to me; hear me, that
your soul may live. I will make an everlasting
covenant with you, my faithful love promised
to David. See, I have made him a witness to
the peoples, a leader and commander of the peoples.
Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations that do not know you will hasten
to you, because of the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you
with splendor."
Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on
him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake
his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him
turn to the LORD , and he will have mercy on
him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
"For
my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are
your ways my ways," declares the LORD.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways and my
thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and
the snow come down from heaven, and do not return
to it without watering the earth and making
it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed
for the sower and bread for the eater, so is
my word that goes out from my mouth: It will
not return to me empty, but will accomplish
what I desire and achieve the purpose for which
I sent it. You will go out in 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 will grow the pine
tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will
grow. This will be for the LORD's renown, for
an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed."
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