47 lines
2.0 KiB
Markdown
47 lines
2.0 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 55
|
||
1 “Is anyone thirsty?
|
||
Come and drink—
|
||
even if you have no money!
|
||
Come, take your choice of wine or milk—
|
||
it’s all free!
|
||
2 Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength?
|
||
Why pay for food that does you no good?
|
||
Listen to me, and you will eat what is good.
|
||
You will enjoy the finest food.
|
||
3 “Come to me with your ears wide open.
|
||
Listen, and you will find life.
|
||
I will make an everlasting covenant with you.
|
||
I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.
|
||
4 See how I used him to display my power among the peoples.
|
||
I made him a leader among the nations.
|
||
5 You also will command nations you do not know,
|
||
and peoples unknown to you will come running to obey,
|
||
because I, the Lord your God,
|
||
the Holy One of Israel, have made you glorious.”
|
||
6 Seek the Lord while you can find him.
|
||
Call on him now while he is near.
|
||
7 Let the wicked change their ways
|
||
and banish the very thought of doing wrong.
|
||
Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them.
|
||
Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.
|
||
8 “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.
|
||
“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
|
||
9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
|
||
so my ways are higher than your ways
|
||
and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
|
||
10 “The rain and snow come down from the heavens
|
||
and stay on the ground to water the earth.
|
||
They cause the grain to grow,
|
||
producing seed for the farmer
|
||
and bread for the hungry.
|
||
11 It is the same with my word.
|
||
I send it out, and it always produces fruit.
|
||
It will accomplish all I want it to,
|
||
and it will prosper everywhere I send it.
|
||
12 You will live in joy and peace.
|
||
The mountains and hills will burst into song,
|
||
and the trees of the field will clap their hands!
|
||
13 Where once there were thorns, cypress trees will grow.
|
||
Where nettles grew, myrtles will sprout up.
|
||
These events will bring great honor to the Lord’s name;
|
||
they will be an everlasting sign of his power and love.” |