Isaiah 55

Invitation to True Rewards

1 "Ho! Everyone thirsty, come to the waters!

And whoever has no money, come, buy and eat,

and come, buy without money,

wine and milk without price!

2 Why do you weigh out money for what is not food,

and your labor for what cannot satisfy?*Literally "what is not for satiation"

Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,

and let your soul take pleasure in rich*Literally "fatty" food.

3 Extend your ear, and come to me!

Listen so that*Or "and" your soul may live,

and I will make*Literally "cut" an everlasting covenant with*or "for" you,

the enduring proofs of the mercies shown to*Literally "mercy of" David.

4 Look! I made*Or "gave" him a witness to the peoples,

a leader and a commander for the peoples.

5 Look! You shall call a nation that you do not know,

and a nation that does not know you shall run to you,

because of Yahweh your God,

and the holy one of Israel, for he has glorified you."

6 Seek Yahweh while he lets himself be found;*Literally "in his letting himself be found"

call him while he is*Literally "in his being" near.