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href="../isaiah/54.htm" title="Isaiah 54">◄</a> Isaiah 55 <a href="../isaiah/56.htm" title="Isaiah 56">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/55.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Compassion of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Come, everyone who thirsts,</span><br /><span class="indent">come to the waters;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and he who has no money,</span><br /><span class="indent">come, buy and eat!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Come, buy wine and milk</span><br /><span class="indent">without money and without price.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your labor for that which does not satisfy?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,</span><br /><span class="indent">and delight yourselves in rich food.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Incline your ear, and come to me;</span><br /><span class="indent">hear, that your soul may live;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,</span><br /><span class="indent">my steadfast, sure love for David.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,</span><br /><span class="indent">a leader and commander for the peoples.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know,</span><br /><span class="indent">and a nation that did not know you shall run to you,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">because of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, and of the Holy One of Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent">for he has glorified you.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Seek the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> while he may be found;</span><br /><span class="indent">call upon him while he is near;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">let the wicked forsake his way,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the unrighteous man his thoughts;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">let him return to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, that he may have compassion on him,</span><br /><span class="indent">and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For my thoughts are not your thoughts,</span><br /><span class="indent">neither are your ways my ways, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For as the heavens are higher than the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent">so are my ways higher than your ways</span><br /><span class="indent">and my thoughts than your thoughts.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven</span><br /><span class="indent">and do not return there but water the earth,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">making it bring forth and sprout,</span><br /><span class="indent">giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;</span><br /><span class="indent">it shall not return to me empty,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,</span><br /><span class="indent">and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“For you shall go out in joy</span><br /><span class="indent">and be led forth in peace;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the mountains and the hills before you</span><br /><span class="indent">shall break forth into singing,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/55-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;</span><br /><span class="indent">instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and it shall make a name for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a 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