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Isaiah 55

God invites everyone who is thirsty to come and buy without money. He tells people to seek him while he may be found and to return to him, for he will abundantly pardon. His thoughts and ways are higher than ours, and his word does not return empty.

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Key verses

  • Verse 1God's invitation is free to anyone thirsty.
  • Verse 8God's thoughts and ways are higher than ours.
  • Verse 11God's word always accomplishes what he intends.

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.SelectedIsaiah 55:1Ask

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.SelectedIsaiah 55:2Ask

Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.SelectedIsaiah 55:3Ask

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.SelectedIsaiah 55:4Ask

Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.SelectedIsaiah 55:5Ask

Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:SelectedIsaiah 55:6Ask

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.SelectedIsaiah 55:7Ask

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.SelectedIsaiah 55:8Ask

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.SelectedIsaiah 55:9Ask

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:SelectedIsaiah 55:10Ask

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.SelectedIsaiah 55:11Ask

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.SelectedIsaiah 55:12Ask

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.SelectedIsaiah 55:13Ask

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