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<p class="indent1"> Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, <p class="indent2"> and your soul will delight in the richest of foods. <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/55-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Incline your ear and come to Me; <p class="indent2"> listen, so that your soul may live. <p class="indent1"> I will make with you an everlasting covenant—<p class="indent2"> My loving devotion promised to David.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/55-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, <p class="indent2"> a leader and commander of the peoples. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/55-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, <p class="indent2"> and nations who do not know you will run to you. <p class="indent1"> For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, <p class="indent2"> has bestowed glory on you.” <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/55-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Seek the LORD while He may be found; <p class="indent2"> call on Him while He is near. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/55-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Let the wicked man forsake his own way <p class="indent2"> and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; <p class="indent1"> let him return to the LORD, <p class="indent2"> that He may have compassion, <p class="indent1"> and to our God, <p class="indent2"> for He will freely pardon. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/55-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, <p class="indent2"> neither are your ways My ways,” <p class="selah"> declares the LORD. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/55-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, <p class="indent2"> so My ways are higher than your ways <p class="indent2"> and My thoughts than your thoughts. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/55-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For just as rain and snow fall from heaven <p class="indent2"> and do not return without watering the earth, <p class="indent1"> making it bud and sprout, <p class="indent2"> and providing seed to sow and food to eat, <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/55-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>so My word that proceeds from My mouth <p class="indent2"> will not return to Me empty, <p class="indent1"> but it will accomplish what I please, <p class="indent2"> and it will prosper where I send it. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/55-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You will indeed go out with joy <p class="indent2"> and be led forth in peace; <p class="indent1"> the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, <p class="indent2"> and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/55-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Instead of the thornbush, a cypress<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> will grow, <p class="indent2"> and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; <p class="indent1"> they will make a name for the LORD, <p class="indent2"> an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Cited in <a href="../acts/13.htm#34">Acts 13:34</a><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>pine</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>juniper</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>fir</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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