ULT ISA Chapter 55

◄ ISA 55 ► ║ ═ ©

55 “Oh, everyone thirsty, go to the waters,

and to whom is no silver, go, buy, and eat!

And go, buy without silver,

and without price, wine and milk.

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

and your labor, for what is not to sufficiency?

Listening, listen to me and eat the good,

and let your soul be delighted by fatness.

3 Incline your ear, and go to me.

Listen, that your soul may live.

And let me cut with you a covenant of eternity,

the confirmed covenant faithfulnesses of David.

4 Behold, I have given him as a witness to the peoples,

a ruler and a commander to the peoples.

5 Behold, you will call a nation you have not known,

and a nation, they have not known you, they will run to you,

because of Yahweh your God,

and for the Holy One of Israel, for he will glorify you.”

6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found;

call on him while he is near.

7 Let the wicked abandon his way,

and the man of iniquity, his thoughts,

and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have compassion on him,

and to our God, for he will make great to 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 my ways are higher than your ways,

and my thoughts, than your thoughts.

10 For as the rain and snow come down from the heavens

and do not return to there

unless they have saturated the earth

and made it bring forth and made it sprout,

and it gives seed to the sower

and bread to the eater,

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

it will not return to me empty,

but it will do what I desire,

and it will accomplish what I send it to do.

12 For you will go out in joy,

and you will be led in peace.

The mountains and the hills will break out to your faces in singing,

and all of the trees of the field will clap the palm.

13 Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will come up,

and instead of the nettle, the myrtle will come up,

and it will be to Yahweh for a name,

for a sign of eternity, it will not be cut off.”