Isaiah 1:19
New International Version
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land;

New Living Translation
If you will only obey me, you will have plenty to eat.

English Standard Version
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

Berean Standard Bible
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.

King James Bible
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

New King James Version
If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;

New American Standard Bible
“If you are willing and obedient, You will eat the best of the land;

NASB 1995
“If you consent and obey, You will eat the best of the land;

NASB 1977
“If you consent and obey, You will eat the best of the land;

Legacy Standard Bible
If you are willing and obey, You will eat the best of the land;

Amplified Bible
“If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the best of the land;

Christian Standard Bible
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land.

American Standard Version
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if you will obey and you will listen to me, you shall eat the good of the Earth

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if ye be willing, and hearken to me, ye shall eat the good of the land:

Contemporary English Version
If you willingly obey me, the best crops in the land will be yours.

Douay-Rheims Bible
if you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.

English Revised Version
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land.

Good News Translation
If you will only obey me, you will eat the good things the land produces.

International Standard Version
If you're willing and obedient, you'll eat the best that the land produces;

JPS Tanakh 1917
If ye be willing and obedient, Ye shall eat the good of the land;

Literal Standard Version
If you are willing, and have listened, | The good of the land you consume,

Majority Standard Bible
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.

New American Bible
If you are willing, and obey, you shall eat the good things of the land;

NET Bible
If you have a willing attitude and obey, then you will again eat the good crops of the land.

New Revised Standard Version
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

New Heart English Bible
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

Webster's Bible Translation
If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

World English Bible
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;

Young's Literal Translation
If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Meaningless Offerings
18“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool. 19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land. 20But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:1
"Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 30:15
See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.

Deuteronomy 30:16
For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

Isaiah 25:6
On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.

Isaiah 55:2
Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

Isaiah 65:13
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.


Treasury of Scripture

If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:

Isaiah 3:10
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Isaiah 55:1-3,6,7
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…

Jeremiah 3:12-14
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever…

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Isaiah 1
1. Isaiah complains of Judah for her rebellion
5. He laments her judgments
10. He upbraids their whole service
16. He exhorts to repentance, with promises and threats
21. Bewailing their wickedness, he denounces God's judgments
25. He promises grace
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(19) If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.--The promise of temporal blessings as the reward of a true repentance, instead of the spiritual peace and joy of Psalm 51:8-12, fills us at first with a sense of disappointment. It has to be remembered, however, that the prophet spoke to those who were unjust and selfish, and who were as yet far from the broken and contrite heart of the true penitent. He was content to wake up in them the dormant sense of righteousness, and to lead them to recognise the moral government of God. In the long run they would not be losers by a change of conduct. The choice of eating or "being eaten" (the "devoured" of Isaiah 1:20), enjoying a blameless prosperity, or falling by the sword, was placed before those to whom the higher aspirations of the soul were little known. Such is, at all times, one at least of the methods of God's education of mankind.

Verse 19. - If ye be willing and obedient. Rosenmüller explains this as equivalent to "if ye be willing to obey" (cf. Ezekiel 3:7); but perhaps it is better to give each verb its separate force: "If you consent in your wills, and are also obedient in your actions" (so Kay). Ye shall eat the good of the land; i.e. there shall be no invasion; strangers shall not devour your crops (see ver. 7); you shall consume them yourselves. "The good of the land" is a common expression for its produce (Genesis 45:18, 20; Ezra 9:12; Nehemiah 9:36; Jeremiah 2:7).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you are willing
תֹּאב֖וּ (tō·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 14: To breathe after, to be acquiescent

and obedient,
וּשְׁמַעְתֶּ֑ם (ū·šə·ma‘·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

you will eat
תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃ (tō·ḵê·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

the best
ט֥וּב (ṭūḇ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2898: Good, goodness, beauty, gladness, welfare

of the land.
הָאָ֖רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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