Verse 2
Isaiah 55:2
Literal Standard Version
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Why do you weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which is not for satiety? Listen diligently to Me, and eat good, || And your soul delights itself in fatness.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לָ֤/מָּה תִשְׁקְלוּ כֶ֨סֶף֙ בְּֽ/לוֹא לֶ֔חֶם וִ/יגִיעֲ/כֶ֖ם בְּ/ל֣וֹא לְ/שָׂבְעָ֑ה שִׁמְע֨וּ שָׁמ֤וֹעַ אֵלַ/י֙ וְ/אִכְלוּ ט֔וֹב וְ/תִתְעַנַּ֥ג בַּ/דֶּ֖שֶׁן נַפְשְׁ/כֶֽם
English Translation
Why do you weigh out silver for what is not bread, and your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in richness.
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Chapter 55 Context
1
“Behold, every thirsty one, || Come to the waters, || And he who has no money, || Come, buy and eat,...
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2
Why do you weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which is not for satiety...
3
Incline your ear, and come to Me, || Hear, and your soul lives, || And I make a perpetual covenant f...
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4
Behold, I have given him as a witness to peoples, || A leader and commander to peoples.
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5
Behold, a nation you do not know, you call, || And a nation who does not know you runs to you, || Fo...
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6
Seek YHWH while He may be found, || Call Him while He is near,
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7
Let the wicked forsake his way, || And the man of iniquity his thoughts, || And he returns to YHWH,...
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8
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, || Nor your ways My ways,” || A declaration of YHWH,
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9
“For as high as the heavens have been above the earth, || So high have been My ways above your ways,...
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10
For as the shower comes down, || And the snow from the heavens, || And does not return there, || But...
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11
So is My word that goes out of My mouth, || It does not return to Me empty, || But has done that whi...
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12
For you go forth with joy, || And you are brought in with peace, || The mountains and the hills || B...
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13
Instead of the thorn comes up fir, || Instead of the brier comes up myrtle, || And it has been to YH...
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