1 "Come, all who are thirsty, come to the water; and you who have no silver, come, buy grain and eat! Come, buy grain without silver, wine and milk with no cost.
2 Why weigh out silver for what is not bread, and your earnings for what does not fill you? Listen closely to me and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest fare.
3 Turn your ear and come to me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure steadfast love shown to David.
4 See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander of the peoples.
5 See, you will summon a nation you do not know, and a nation that does not know you will come running to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has made you glorious."
6 Seek the LORD while he lets himself be found; call on him while he is close.
7 Let the wicked man leave his way, and the evil man his thoughts; let him come back to the LORD, so that he may show him compassion, and to our God, for he will forgive generously.
8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways," declares the LORD.
9 "As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.
10 For just as the rain and the snow fall from the sky and do not go back there without first watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the one who eats,
11 so will my word be that goes out from my mouth: it will not come back to me empty, but will do what I desire and succeed in what I sent it to do.
12 For you will go out in joy and be led along in peace; the mountains and the hills will burst into song ahead of you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
13 In place of the thornbush the cypress will grow, in place of the nettle the myrtle will grow; and this will bring renown to the LORD, a lasting sign that will never be cut down."