Isaiah 55:2
Hebrew Text— Isaiah 55:2Why 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.
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Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.
They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.
Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.
For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.
Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”
Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”
He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
“ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.
The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says Yahweh, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;
They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”
Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship.
“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
“Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.
“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.
I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed.
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.
Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”
Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!” ’
He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat, and celebrate;
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.