Isaiah Chapter 55 (NIV)
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Invitation to the Thirsty“Come, all you who are thirsty,come to the waters;and you who have no money,come, buy and eat!Come, buy wine and milkwithout money and without cost.
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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.
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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.
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See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,a leader and commander of the peoples.
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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.”
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Seek the Lord while he may be found;call on him while he is near.
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Let the wicked forsake his wayand 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.
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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord.
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“As the heavens are higher than the earth,so are my ways higher than your waysand my thoughts than your thoughts.
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As the rain and the snowcome down from heaven,and do not return to itwithout watering the earthand making it bud and flourish,so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
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so is my word that goes out from my mouth:It will not return to me empty,but will accomplish what I desireand achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
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You will go out in joyand be led forth in peace;the mountains and hillswill burst into song before you,and all the trees of the fieldwill clap their hands.
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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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