Isaiah 55

¹Come , everyone who thirsts , come to the waters ; and he who has no money , come , buy and eat ! Come , buy wine and milk without money and without price .

²Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread , and your labor for that which does not satisfy ? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good , and delight yourselves in rich food .

³Incline your ear , and come to me; hear , that your soul may live ; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant , my steadfast , sure love for David .

⁴Behold , I made him a witness to the peoples , a leader and commander for the peoples .

⁵Behold , you shall call a nation that you do not know , and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God , and of the Holy One of Israel , for he has glorified you.

⁶Seek the Lord while he may be found ; call upon him while he is near ;

⁷let the wicked forsake his way , and the unrighteous man his thoughts ; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God , for he will abundantly pardon .

⁸For my thoughts are not your thoughts , neither are your ways my ways , declares the Lord.

⁹For as the heavens are higher than the earth , so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts .

¹⁰For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth , making it bring forth and sprout , giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater ,

¹¹so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth ; it shall not return to me empty , but it shall accomplish that which I purpose , and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

¹²For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace ; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing , and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands .

¹³Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress ; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle ; and it shall make a name for the Lord, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off .