Popular Bible Verses from Isaiah 55

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“For my thoughts about mercy are not like your thoughts, and my ways are different from yours.

As high as the heavens are above the earth, so my ways and my thoughts are higher than yours.

Seek the Lord YAHWEH when he makes himself approachable; call upon him when you sense he is near.

The wicked need to abandon their ways, and sinful ones need to banish every evil thought. Let them return to YAHWEH, and they will experience his compassionate mercy. Yes, let them return to God, for he will lavish forgiveness upon them.

“Listen! Are you thirsty for more? Come to the refreshing waters and drink. Even if you have no money, come, buy, and eat. Yes, come and buy all the wine and milk you desire— it won’t cost a thing.

“As the snow and rain that fall from heaven do not return until they have accomplished their purpose, soaking the earth and causing it to sprout with new life, providing seed to sow and bread to eat. So also will be the word that I speak; it does not return to me unfulfilled. My word performs my purpose and fulfills the mission I sent it out to accomplish.”

For you will leave your exile with joy and be led home wrapped in peace. The mountains and hills in front of you will burst into singing and the trees of the field will applaud!

Pay attention and come closer to me, and hear, that your total being may flourish. I will enter into an everlasting covenant with you, and I will show you the same faithful love that I showed David.