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Isaiah 55:3 (NET) New English Translation

1 "Hey, all who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come! Buy and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
2 Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!
3 Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
4 Look, I made him a witness to nations, a ruler and commander of nations."
5 Look, you will summon nations you did not previously know; nations that did not previously know you will run to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he bestows honor on you.
6 Seek the LORD while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby!
7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
8 "Indeed, my plans are not like your plans, and my deeds are not like your deeds,
9 for just as the sky is higher than the earth, so my deeds are superior to your deeds and my plans superior to your plans.
10 The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.
11 In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend."
12 Indeed you will go out with joy; you will be led along in peace; the mountains and hills will give a joyful shout before you, and all the trees in the field will clap their hands.
13 Evergreens will grow in place of thorn bushes, firs will grow in place of nettles; they will be a monument to the LORD, a permanent reminder that will remain.
1 Ho H1945 , every one H3605 NMS that thirsteth H6771 , come H1980 VQI2MP ye to the waters H4325 , and he that H834 W-RPRO hath no H369 ADV money H3701 NMS ; come H1980 VQI2MP ye , buy H7666 , and eat H398 ; yea , come H1980 W-VQI2MP , buy H7666 wine H3196 NMS and milk H2461 without H3808 money H3701 and without H3808 price H4242 .
2 Wherefore H4100 L-IPRO do ye spend H8254 money H3701 for that which is not H3808 bread H3899 NMS ? and your labor H3018 for that which satisfieth H7654 not H3808 ? hearken diligently H8085 VQI2MP unto H413 PREP-1MS me , and eat H398 ye that which is good H2896 AMS , and let your soul H5315 delight itself H6026 in fatness H1880 .
3 Incline H5186 your ear H241 , and come H1980 W-VQI2MP unto H413 PREP-1MS me : hear H8085 VQI2MP , and your soul H5315 CFS-2MP shall live H2421 ; and I will make H3772 an everlasting H5769 NMS covenant H1285 NFS with you , even the sure H539 mercies H2617 of David H1732 .
4 Behold H2005 IJEC , I have given H5414 him for a witness H5707 to the people H3816 , a leader H5057 NMS and commander H6680 to the people H3816 .
5 Behold H2005 IJEC , thou shalt call H7121 VQI2MS a nation H1471 NMS that thou knowest H3045 VQY2MS not H3808 ADV , and nations H1471 that knew H3045 VQY2MS not H3808 ADV thee shall run H7323 VQY3MP unto H413 PREP-2MS thee because H4616 L-CONJ of the LORD H3068 EDS thy God H430 CMP-2MS , and for the Holy One H6918 of Israel H3478 ; for H3588 CONJ he hath glorified H6286 thee .
6 Seek H1875 ye the LORD H3068 EDS while he may be found H4672 , call H7121 ye upon him while he is H1961 near H7138 :
7 Let the wicked H7563 AMS forsake H5800 his way H1870 CMS-3MS , and the unrighteous H205 NMS man H376 W-NMS his thoughts H4284 : and let him return H7725 unto H413 PREP the LORD H3068 EDS , and he will have mercy H7355 upon him ; and to H413 PREP our God H430 , for H3588 CONJ he will abundantly H7235 pardon H5545 .
8 For H3588 CONJ my thoughts H4284 are not H3808 NADV your thoughts H4284 , neither H3808 W-NADV are your ways H1870 my ways H1870 , saith H5002 the LORD H3068 NAME-4MS .
9 For H3588 CONJ as the heavens H8064 NMP are higher H1361 than the earth H776 , so H3651 ADV are my ways higher H1361 VQQ3MP than your ways H1870 , and my thoughts H4284 than your thoughts H4284 .
10 For H3588 CONJ as H834 K-RPRO the rain H1653 D-NMS cometh down H3381 , and the snow H7950 from H4480 PREP heaven H8064 D-NMD , and returneth H7725 VQY3MS not H3808 NADV thither H8033 , but H518 PART watereth H7301 the earth H776 D-GFS , and maketh it bring forth H3205 and bud H6779 , that it may give H5414 W-VQQ3MS seed H2233 NMS to the sower H2232 , and bread H3899 to the eater H398 :
11 So H3651 ADV shall my word H1697 CMS-1MS be H1961 VQY3MS that H834 RPRO goeth forth H3318 VQY3MS out of my mouth H6310 M-CMS : it shall not H3808 ADV return H7725 VQY3MS unto H413 PREP-1MS me void H7387 ADV , but H518 PART it shall accomplish H6213 VQQ3MS that which H834 RPRO I please H2654 VQQ1MS , and it shall prosper H6743 in the thing whereto H834 RPRO I sent H7971 it .
12 For H3588 CONJ ye shall go out H3318 with joy H8057 , and be led forth H2986 with peace H7965 : the mountains H2022 and the hills H1389 shall break forth H6476 before H6440 you into singing H7440 , and all H3605 W-CMS the trees H6086 CMP of the field H7704 D-NMS shall clap H4222 their hands H3709 .
13 Instead H8478 NMS of the thorn H5285 shall come up H5927 VQY3MS the fir tree H1265 , and instead H8478 NMS of the brier H5636 shall come up H5927 VQY3MS the myrtle tree H1918 : and it shall be H1961 W-VQQ3MS to the LORD H3068 L-EDS for a name H8034 , for an everlasting H5769 NMS sign H226 L-CMS that shall not H3808 NADV be cut off H3772 .