ULT ISA Chapter 55

55 “Oh, all who are thirsty, come to the water,

and who have no money, come, buy, and eat!

And come, buy without money

and without cost, wine and milk.

2 Why do you weigh out silver for what is not bread,

and your labor for what does not satisfy?

Listen carefully to me and eat what is good,

and delight your spirits in fatness.

3 Turn your ears and come to me!

Listen, that your spirit may live!

And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,

the faithful covenant loyalty shown to David.

4 Behold, I have placed him as a witness to the nations,

a leader and commander to the peoples.

5 Behold, you will call a nation you did not know;

and a nation that did not know you will run to you

because of Yahweh your God,

and the Holy One of Israel, for he made you glorious.”

6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found;

call on him while he is near.

7 Let the wicked leave his path,

and the man of sin his thoughts.

And let him return to Yahweh, and he will show compassion to him,

and to our God, who will abundantly forgive.

8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

and your ways are not my ways”—

the declaration of Yahweh.

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 and snow come down from heaven

and do not return there but saturate the earth

and make it produce and sprout

and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

11 so my word will be that goes out from my mouth:

It will not return to me empty,

but it will do what I desire,

and it will achieve that for which I have sent.

12 For joyfully you will go out

and peacefully be led;

the mountains and the hills will break out in joyful shouts before your faces,

and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

13 Instead of the thornbushes, the cypress will grow;

and instead of the brier, the myrtle tree will grow,

and it will be for Yahweh, for his name,

as an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”