Isaiah 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.Cross-references: Ruth 4:1 · Ps 42:1 · Ps 63:1 · Ps 143:6 · Prov 1:21 · Prov 8:4 · +26 more

2Why 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 that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Deut 11:13 · Ps 22:26 · Ps 34:11 · Ps 36:8 · Ps 63:5 · +28 more

3Turn 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.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Lev 18:5 · 2Sam 7:8 · 2Sam 23:5 · Ps 78:1 · Ps 89:28 · +23 more

4Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.Cross-references: Ps 2:6 · Ps 18:43 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 49:8 · Jer 30:9 · Ezek 34:23 · +18 more

5Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.”Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ps 18:43 · Ps 110:1 · Isa 11:10 · Isa 45:23 · Isa 49:6 · +18 more

6Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.Cross-references: Deut 4:7 · 1Chr 28:9 · 2Chr 19:3 · Job 8:5 · Ps 14:2 · Ps 27:8 · +24 more

7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Ex 34:6 · Num 14:18 · 2Chr 7:14 · Ps 51:1 · Ps 66:18 · +39 more

8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:19 · Ps 25:10 · Ps 40:5 · Ps 92:5 · Prov 21:8 · Prov 25:3 · +5 more

9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.Cross-references: Ps 36:5 · Ps 77:19 · Ps 89:2 · Ps 103:11 · Matt 11:25 · Rom 11:31

10For 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;Cross-references: Deut 32:2 · 1Sam 23:4 · Ps 65:9 · Ps 72:6 · Isa 5:6 · Isa 30:23 · +5 more

11so 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.Cross-references: Deut 32:2 · Isa 44:26 · Isa 45:23 · Isa 46:10 · Isa 54:9 · Matt 24:35 · +10 more

12For 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.Cross-references: 1Chr 16:32 · Ps 47:1 · Ps 65:13 · Ps 96:11 · Ps 98:7 · Ps 105:43 · +25 more

13Instead 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 Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”Cross-references: Isa 5:6 · Isa 11:6 · Isa 41:19 · Isa 43:21 · Isa 54:10 · Isa 60:13 · +15 more