Isaiah 55

Invitation to True Rewards

¹“Ho! Everyone thirsty, come to the waters!

and come, buy without money,

²Why do you weigh out money for what is not food,

Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,

³Extend your ear, and come to me!

and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,

⁴Look! I made him a witness to the peoples,[#Or “gave”]

⁵Look! You shall call a nation that you do not know,

because of Yahweh your God,

⁶Seek Yahweh while he lets himself be found;[#Literally “in his letting himself be found”]

⁷Let the wicked forsake his way,

And let him return to Yahweh, that he may take pity on him,

⁸“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

declares Yahweh.

⁹“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,[#Literally “high”]

¹⁰For just as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,

except they have watered the earth thoroughly

and give seed to the sower

¹¹so shall be my word that goes out from my mouth.

but shall accomplish what I desire

¹²For you shall go out in joy,

The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you, rejoicing

¹³Instead of the thorn bush, the juniper shall go up;

and it shall serve as a memorial to Yahweh,