73 lines
1.9 KiB
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73 lines
1.9 KiB
Markdown
Come to the Lord
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# Chapter 55
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1. "Come, everyone who is thirsty,
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come to the water;
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and you without silver,
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come, buy, and eat!
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Come, buy wine and milk
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without silver and without cost!
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2. Why do you spend silver on what is not food,
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and your wages on what does not satisfy?
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Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,
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and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.
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3. Pay attention and come to me;
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listen, so that you will live.
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I will make a permanent covenant with you
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on the basis of the faithful kindnesses of David.
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4. Since I have made him a witness to the peoples,
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a leader and commander for the peoples,
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5. so you will summon a nation you do not know,
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and nations who do not know you will run to you.
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For the Lord your God,
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even the Holy One of Israel,
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has glorified you."
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6. Seek the Lord while he may be found;
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call to him while he is near.
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7. Let the wicked one abandon his way
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and the sinful one his thoughts;
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let him return to the Lord,
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so he may have compassion on him,
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and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
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8. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
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and your ways are not my ways."
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This is the Lord's declaration.
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9. "For as heaven is higher than earth,
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so my ways are higher than your ways,
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and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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10. For just as rain and snow fall from heaven
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and do not return there
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without saturating the earth
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and making it germinate and sprout,
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and providing seed to sow
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and food to eat,
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11. so my word that comes from my mouth
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will not return to me empty,
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but it will accomplish what I please
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and will prosper in what I send it to do."
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12. You will indeed go out with joy
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and be peacefully guided;
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the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you,
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and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
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13. Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will come up,
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and instead of the brier, a myrtle will come up;
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this will stand as a monument for the Lord,
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an everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.
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