Study Desk

"Come, all you who are thirsty,^(a) come to the waters;^(b) and you who have no money, come, buy^(c) and eat! Come, buy wine and milk^(d) without money and without cost.^(e)

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?^(f) Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,^(g) and you will delight in the richest^(h) of fare.

Give ear and come to me; listen,⁽ⁱ⁾ that you may live.^(j) I will make an everlasting covenant^(k) with you, my faithful love^(l) promised to David.^(m)

See, I have made him a witness⁽ⁿ⁾ to the peoples, a ruler and commander^(o) of the peoples.

Surely you will summon nations^(p) you know not, and nations you do not know will come running to you,^(q) because of the Lord your God, the Holy One^(r) of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor."^(s)

Seek^(t) the Lord while he may be found;^(u) call^(v) on him while he is near.

Let the wicked forsake^(w) their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.^(x) Let them turn^(y) to the Lord , and he will have mercy^(z) on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.^(aa)

"For my thoughts^(ab) are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,"^(ac) declares the Lord .

"As the heavens are higher than the earth,^(ad) so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.^(ae)

As the rain^(af) and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish,^(ag) so that it yields seed^(ah) for the sower and bread for the eater,^(ai)

so is my word^(aj) that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty,^(ak) but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose^(al) for which I sent it.

You will go out in joy^(am) and be led forth in peace;^(an) the mountains and hills will burst into song^(ao) before you, and all the trees^(ap) of the field will clap their hands.^(aq)

Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers^(ar) the myrtle^(as) will grow. This will be for the Lord 's renown,^(at) for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever."