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1 “Hey!
Come, everyone who
thirsts, to the
waters!
Come, he who
has no money,
buy, and eat!
Yes, come, buy
wine and milk
without money and
without price.
2 Why
do you spend
money for that
which is not
bread,
and your labor
for that
which doesn’t satisfy?
Listen diligently
to me, and
eat that which
is good,
and let your
soul delight itself
in richness.
3 Turn
your ear, and
come to me.
Hear, and your
soul will live.
I will make
an everlasting
covenant with you,
even the sure mercies
of David.
4 Behold,
I have given
him for a
witness to the
peoples,
a leader and
commander to the
peoples.
5 Behold,
you shall call
a nation that
you don’t know;
and a nation
that didn’t know
you shall run
to you,
because of the
LORD your God,
and for the
Holy One of
Israel;
for he has
glorified you.”
6 Seek
the LORD while
he may be
found.
Call on him
while he is
near.
7 Let
the wicked forsake
his way,
and the unrighteous
man his thoughts.
Let him return
to the LORD,
and he will
have mercy on
him,
to our God,
for he will freely
pardon.
8 “For
my thoughts are
not your thoughts,
and your ways
are not 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
the sky,
and doesn’t return
there, but waters
the earth,
and makes it
grow and bud,
and gives seed
to the sower
and bread to
the eater;
11 so
is my word
that goes out
of my mouth:
it will not
return to me
void,
but it will
accomplish that
which I please,
and it will
prosper in the
thing I sent
it to do.
12 For
you shall go
out with joy,
and be led
out with peace.
The mountains and
the hills will
break out before
you into singing;
and all the
trees of the
fields will clap
their hands.
13 Instead
of the thorn
the cypress tree
will come up;
and instead of
the brier the
myrtle tree will
come up.
It will make
a name for
the LORD,
for an
everlasting sign that
will not be
cut off.”