Isaiah 55:3
Good News Translation
"Listen now, my people, and come to me; come to me, and you will have life! I will make a lasting covenant with you and give you the blessings I promised to David.

New Revised Standard Version
Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Contemporary English Version
Pay close attention! Come to me and live. I will promise you the eternal love and loyalty that I promised David.

New American Bible
Pay attention and come to me; listen, that you may have life. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the steadfast loyalty promised to David.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

incline

Psalm 78:1 Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Psalm 119:112 I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for the reward.

Proverbs 4:20 Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:

come

Matthew 11:28 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

John 6:37,44,45 All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out. . . .

John 7:37 And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.

hear

Matthew 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

Matthew 17:5 And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him.

John 5:24,25 Amen, amen, I say unto you that he who heareth my word and believeth him that sent me hath life everlasting: and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life. . . .

John 8:47 He that is of God heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me.

and I will

Isaiah 54:8 In a moment of indignation have I hid my face a little while from thee, but with everlasting kindness have I had mercy on thee, said the Lord thy Redeemer.

Isaiah 61:8 For I am the Lord that love judgment, and hate robbery in a holocaust: and I will make their work in truth, and I will make a perpetual covenant with them.

Genesis 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

2 Samuel 23:5 Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up.

Jeremiah 32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that they may not revolt from me.

Jeremiah 50:5 They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces are hitherward. They shall come, and shall be joined to the Lord by an everlasting covenant, which shall never be forgotten.

Hebrews 13:20 And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the everlasting testament,

the sure

2 Samuel 7:8 And now thus shalt thou speak to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I took thee out of the pastures from following the sheep to be ruler over my people Israel:

Psalm 89:28,35-37 I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him. . . .

Jeremiah 33:20,21,26 Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season: . . .

Ezekiel 37:24,25 And my servant David shall be king over them, and they shall have one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my commandments, and shall do them. . . .

Acts 13:34 And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy things of David, faithful.

Context
Invitation to the Needy
2Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness. 3Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.4Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, for a leader and a master to the Gentiles.…
Cross References
Acts 13:34
And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy things of David, faithful.

Romans 10:5
For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

Hebrews 13:20
And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the everlasting testament,

Leviticus 18:5
Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

2 Samuel 23:5
Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up.

2 Chronicles 6:42
O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

Psalm 78:1
Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Psalm 119:175
My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments shall help me.

Isaiah 51:4
Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear to me, O my tribes: for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment shall rest to be a light of the nations.

Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains shall be moved, and the hills shall tremble; but my mercy shall not depart from thee, and the covenant of my peace shall not be moved: said the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

Isaiah 61:8
For I am the Lord that love judgment, and hate robbery in a holocaust: and I will make their work in truth, and I will make a perpetual covenant with them.

Jeremiah 30:9
But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

Jeremiah 32:40
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that they may not revolt from me.

Jeremiah 38:20
But Jeremiah answered: They shall not deliver thee: hearken, I beseech thee, to the word of the Lord, which I speak to the, and it shall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live.

Jeremiah 50:5
They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces are hitherward. They shall come, and shall be joined to the Lord by an everlasting covenant, which shall never be forgotten.

Ezekiel 16:60
And I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth: and I will establish with thee an everlasting covenant.

Ezekiel 34:24
And I the Lord will be their God: and my servant David the prince in the midst of them: I the Lord have spoken it.

Ezekiel 37:26
And I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will establish them, and will multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever.

Amos 5:4
For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.

Amos 5:6
Seek ye the Lord, and live: lest the house of Joseph be burnt with fire, and it shall devour, and there shall be none to quench Bethel.

Isaiah 55:2
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