54 lines
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54 lines
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# Chapter 55
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1 “Ho! Everyone who thirsts,
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Come to the waters;
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And you who have no money,
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Come, buy and eat.
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Yes, come, buy wine and milk
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Without money and without price.
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2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
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And your wages for what does not satisfy?
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Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
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And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
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3 Incline your ear, and come to Me.
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Hear, and your soul shall live;
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And I will make an everlasting covenant with you—
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The sure mercies of David.
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4 Indeed I have given him as a witness to the people,
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A leader and commander for the people.
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5 Surely you shall call a nation you do not know,
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And nations who do not know you shall run to you,
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Because of the Lord your God,
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And the Holy One of Israel;
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For He has glorified you.”
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6 Seek the Lord while He may be found,
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Call upon Him while He is near.
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7 Let the wicked forsake his way,
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And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
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Let him return to the Lord,
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And He will have mercy on him;
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And to our God,
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For He will abundantly pardon.
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8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
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Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
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9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
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So are My ways higher than your ways,
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And My thoughts than your thoughts.
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10 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
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And do not return there,
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But water the earth,
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And make it bring forth and bud,
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That it may give seed to the sower
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And bread to the eater,
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11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
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It shall not return to Me void,
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But it shall accomplish what I please,
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And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
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12 “For you shall go out with joy,
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And be led out with peace;
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The mountains and the hills
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Shall break forth into singing before you,
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And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
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13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree,
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And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree;
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And it shall be to the Lord for a name,
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For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” |