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Thirsty! come to the waters; even you who have no money, come, buy and eat; Come, buy without money and without price wine and milk. |
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Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. |
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Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live, --and give you an everlasting covenant, even the sure mercy [promised] to David. |
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Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the people. |
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Here, you call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
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Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. |
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Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous - man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. |
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My thoughts - not your thoughts, neither are your ways - My ways, says the Lord. |
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For as the heavens are above the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. |
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As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there, but water the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater - |
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So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth, --It did not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. |
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Ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. |
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Instead of the thorn the cypress will grow; instead of the brier the myrtle; and it will be for the glory of the Lord, as a sign of the eternal, indestructible. |
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