Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have 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
carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich
food. 3
Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I
will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for
David. 4See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and
commander for the peoples. 5See, you shall call nations that you do not
know, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of the
Lord your God, 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;
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let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let
them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our
God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says 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 until they have watered 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
succeed in the thing for which I sent it. 12For you shall go out in joy, and
be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst
into song, 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 be to the Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting
sign that shall not be cut off.
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