Isaiah 55:1-9 ▼

1 |Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters. Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

3 Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful kindnesses of David.

4 Look, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

5 Look, you shall call a nation that you do not know; and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.|

6 Seek the LORD while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

8 |For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,| says the LORD.

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