Chapter 55
1 " Hey ! 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 labour for that which doesn’t satisfy ? Listen diligently to me , and eat that which is good , and let your soul delight itself in richness.
3 Turn your ear , and come to me . Hear , and your soul will live . I will make an everlasting covenant with you , even the sure mercies of David .
4 Behold , I have given him for a witness to the peoples , a leader and commander to the peoples .
5 Behold , you shall call a nation that you don’t know ; and a nation that didn’t 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 on him while he is near .
7 Let the wicked forsake his way , and the unrighteous man his thoughts . Let him return to the LORD , and he will have mercy on him , to our God , for he will freely pardon .
8 " For my thoughts are not your thoughts , and your ways are not 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 .
10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky , and doesn’t return there , but waters the earth , and makes it grow and bud , and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11 so is my word that goes out of my mouth : it will not return to me void , but it will accomplish that which I please , and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do .
12 For you shall go out with joy , and be led out with peace . The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing ; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands .
13 Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up ; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up . It will make a name for the LORD , for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off ."