Isaiah 55:6-13 ▼

6 Seek YHWH while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.

7 Let the wicked one forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return to YHWH, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

8 “For My thoughts are not your? thoughts, and your? ways are not My ways,” a declaration of YHWH.

9 “For the heavens are higher than the earth; so My ways are higher than your? ways, and My thoughts than your? thoughts.

10 For as the rain comes down—and the snow—from the heavens, and from there it does not return until it has quenched the earth and made it bring forth and sprout, that it may give seed to the one sowing and bread to the one eating,

11 so is My word that goes forth from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty until it has done that which I delight, and it will prosper for that which I send it.

12 For with joy you? will go forth, and with peace you? will be led; the mountains and the hills will break forth before you? with singing, and all the trees of the field will clap the hand.

13 In place of the thornbush the cypress, will come up, and in place of the nettles the myrtle tree will come up; and it will be for YHWH as a name, as a sign forever that will not be cut off.”