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          DASV: Isaiah 55    

1 "Everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters.
     You who have no money, come buy and eat.
      Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and free of charge.
2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread,
          and your wages for that which does not satisfy?
     Listen carefully to me,
          and eat what is good,
           and delight yourselves in the finest cuisine.
3 Incline your ear and come to me;
          listen, so you may live.
      I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
          just like my loyal covenant made to David.
4 Look, I have given him for a witness to the peoples,
     a leader and commander to the peoples.
5 Look, you will summon nations you did not know;
     nations that did not know you will 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 upon him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way,
          and the unrighteous his thoughts.
     Let them return to the LORD,
          and he will have mercy on him,
           and to our God,
          for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
     neither are your ways 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 than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven,
     and does not return there without watering the earth,
     making it produce and sprout,
           giving seed to the sower,
           and bread to the eater;
11 so will my word be that goes forth out of my mouth;
     it will not return to me empty,
     but it will accomplish what I desire it to,
     and it will succeed in the matter for which I sent it.
12 For you will go out with joy,
     and be led forth with peace;
      the mountains and the hills will break out in singing before you,
     and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
13 Instead of thorns, cypress trees will grow,
          and instead of briers, myrtle trees will sprout up.
      It will be a memorial for the LORD,
          for an everlasting sign that will never be cut off.

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