The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[SaltwaterGirl]

Isaiah 55

New King James Version

55 “Ho! Everyone who thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
Come, buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 55:2 (NKJV)

Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 55:3 (NKJV)

Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you—The sure mercies of David.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 55:4 (NKJV)

Indeed I have given him as a witness to the people, a leader and commander for the people.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Isaiah 55:5 (NKJV)
Surely you shall call a nation you do not know,
And nations who do not know you shall run to you,
Because of the Lord your God,
And the Holy One of Israel;
For He has glorified you.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Isaiah 55:6 (NKJV)
Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.

 

[SaltwaterGirl]

Isaiah 55:7

New King James Version

7 Let the wicked forsake 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 abundantly pardon.

 

[SaltwaterGirl]

Isaiah 55:8

New King James Version

8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 55:10 (NKJV)

“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater, ​

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV)

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. ​

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 55:12 (NKJV)

“For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 55:13 (NKJV)

Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Isaiah 55:10 (NKJV)

“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater, ​

Should have been...

Isaiah 55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Moving forward...

Isaiah 56:1 (NKJV)
Thus says the LORD: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, For My salvation is about to come, And My righteousness to be revealed.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Isaiah 56:2 (NKJV)
Blessed is the man who does this, And the son of man who lays hold on it; Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

 

[SaltwaterGirl]

Isaiah 56:3

New King James Version

3 Do not let the son of the foreigner
Who has joined himself to the Lord
Speak, saying,
“The Lord has utterly separated me from His people”;
Nor let the eunuch say,
“Here I am, a dry tree.”

 

[SaltwaterGirl]

Isaiah 56:4

New King James Version

4 For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
And choose what pleases Me,
And hold fast My covenant,

 

[SaltwaterGirl]

Isaiah 56:5

New King James Version

5 Even to them I will give in My house
And within My walls a place and a name
Better than that of sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
That shall not be cut off.

 

[akaBeliever]

Isaiah 56:6 New King James Version

“Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—

 

[akaBeliever]

Isaiah 56:7 New King James Version

Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 56:8 (NKJV)

The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “Yet I will gather to him others besides those who are gathered to him.”