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¹ If you are thirsty,
    come and drink water!
If you don't have any money,
    come, eat what you want!
Drink wine and milk
    without paying a cent.
² Why waste your money
    on what really isn't food?
Why work hard for something
    that doesn't satisfy?
Listen carefully to me,
and you will enjoy
    the very best foods.

³ Pay close attention!
    Come to me and live.
I will promise you
the eternal love and loyalty
    that I promised David.
⁴ I made him the leader and ruler
of the nations;
    he was my witness to them.
⁵ You will call out to nations
    you have never known.
And they have never known you,
but they will come running
    because I am the Lord,
the holy God of Israel,
    and I have honored you.

⁶ Turn to the Lord!
He can still be found.
    Call out to God! He is near.
⁷ Give up your crooked ways
    and your evil thoughts.
Return to the Lord our God.
He will be merciful
    and forgive your sins.

⁸ The Lord says:
"My thoughts and my ways
    are not like yours.
⁹ Just as the heavens
    are higher than the earth,
my thoughts and my ways
    are higher than yours.

¹⁰ "Rain and snow fall from the sky.
But they don't return
    without watering the earth
that produces seeds to plant
    and grain to eat.
¹¹ That's how it is with my words.
    They don't return to me
without doing everything
    I send them to do."

¹² When you are set free,
you will celebrate
    and travel home in peace.
Mountains and hills will sing
as you pass by,
    and trees will clap.
¹³ Cypress and myrtle trees
will grow in fields
    once covered by thorns.
And then those trees will stand
as a lasting witness
    to the glory of the Lord.