1Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters. You who have no money, come, buy, and eat. Come, buy wine and milk with no money and no price.
2Why do you spend money on what is not bread? Why do you work for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in rich food.
3Turn your ear to me, and come to me. Listen, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies promised to David.
4Look, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.
5Look, you will call a nation you do not know, and nations that did not know you will run to you. This is because of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he has given you glory.
6Seek the LORD while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
7Let the wicked man leave his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will pardon freely.
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 my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts."
10"For the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back there. It waters the earth and makes it sprout and bud, so that it gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater."
11"So my word will be that goes out of my mouth. It will not come back to me empty. It will do what I please, and it will succeed in the thing I sent it to do."
12"For you will go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will burst into singing before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands."
13"Instead of the thorn the fir tree will grow, and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will grow. It will be a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign that will not be cut off."