Isaiah 55:1-9 ▼

1 All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, buy grain and eat; Come, buy grain without money, wine and milk without cost!

2 Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what does not satisfy? Only listen to me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare.

3 Pay attention and come to me; listen, that you may have life. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the steadfast loyalty promised to David.

4 As I made him a witness to peoples, a leader and commander of peoples,

5 So shall you summon a nation you knew not, and a nation that knew you not shall run to you, Because of the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, who has glorified you.

6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near.

7 Let the wicked forsake their way, and sinners their thoughts; Let them turn to the LORD to find mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving.

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways—oracle of the LORD.

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