1 o Almal wat dors het, kom na die waters; en wie geen geld het nie, kom, koop en eet; ja, kom, koop sonder geld en sonder prys, wyn en melk!

2 Waarom weeg julle geld af vir wat geen brood is nie, en julle arbeid vir wat nie kan versadig nie? Luister aandagtig na My en eet die goeie, en laat julle siel hom in vettigheid verlustig.

3 Neig julle oor en kom na My toe, luister, en julle siel sal lewe; Ek wil met julle 'n ewige verbond sluit: die bestendige genadebewyse van Dawid.

4 Kyk, Ek het hom tot 'n getuie van die volke gemaak, tot 'n vors en 'n gebieder van die nasies.

5 Kyk, nasies wat jy nie geken het nie, sal jy roep; en nasies wat jou nie geken het nie, sal na jou hardloop, ter wille van die HERE jou God en van die Heilige van Israel, omdat Hy jou verheerlik het.

6 Soek die HERE terwyl Hy nog te vinde is; roep Hom aan terwyl Hy naby is.

7 Laat die goddelose sy weg verlaat en die kwaaddoener sy gedagtes; en laat hy hom tot die HERE bekeer, dan sal Hy hom barmhartig wees; en tot onse God, want Hy vergeef menigvuldiglik.

8 Want my gedagtes is nie julle gedagtes nie, en julle weë is nie my weë nie, spreek die HERE.

9 Want soos die hemel hoër is as die aarde, so is my weë hoër as julle weë en my gedagtes as julle gedagtes.

10 Want soos die reën en die sneeu van die hemel neerdaal en daarheen nie terugkeer nie, maar die aarde deurvogtig en maak dat dit voortbring en uitspruit en saad gee aan die saaier en brood aan die eter;

11 so sal my woord wees wat uit my mond uitgaan: dit sal nie leeg na My terugkeer nie, maar doen wat My behaag en voorspoedig wees in alles waartoe Ek dit stuur.

12 Want met vreugde sal julle uittrek en met vrede gelei word; die berge en heuwels sal voor julle in gejubel uitbreek, en al die bome van die veld in die hande klap.

13 Vir 'n doringboom sal 'n sipres opgaan; vir 'n distel sal 'n mirteboom opgaan; en dit sal vir die HERE wees tot 'n naam, tot 'n ewige teken wat nie uitgeroei sal word nie.

1 Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.

2 Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

3 Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.

4 See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations.

5 See, you will send for a nation of which you had no knowledge, and those who had no knowledge of you will come running to you, because of the Lord your God, and because of the Holy One of Israel, for he has given you glory.

6 Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

7 Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

11 So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.

12 For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.

13 In place of the thorn will come up the fir-tree, and in place of the blackberry the myrtle: and it will be to the Lord for a name, for an eternal sign which will not be cut off.