The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Isaiah 55
1 “Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the
waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and
eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without
money and without price.
2 Why do you spend money for that which
is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t
satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which
is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
3 Turn your ear, and come to me.
Hear, and your soul will live.
I will make an everlasting covenant
with you, even the sure mercies of
David.
4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to
the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.
5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you
don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you
shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God,
and for the Holy One of Israel;
for he has glorified you.
6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found.
Call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unright eousman his thoughts.
Lethimreturnto Yahweh, andhe willhave
mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways,” says
Yahweh.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher thanyour ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain comes down and the snow
from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters
the earth, and makes it grow and bud,
and gives seed to the sower and bread
to the eater;
11 so is my word that goes out of my mouth:
it will not return to me void,
but it will accomplish that which I
please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it
to do.
12 For you shall go out with joy,
and be led out with peace.
The mountains and the hills will break out
before you into singing;
and all the trees of the fields will clap
their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will
come up; and instead ofthe brier the myrtle tree
will come up. It will make a name for Yahweh,
for an everlasting sign that will not be
cut off.”