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Isaiah 55 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:1 - Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:2 - Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:3 - Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:4 - See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:5 - See, you will send for a nation of which you had no knowledge, and those who had no knowledge of you will come running to you, because of the Lord your God, and because of the Holy One of Israel, for he has given you glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:6 - Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:7 - Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:8 - For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:9 - For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 - For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:11 - So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:12 - For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:13 - In place of the thorn will come up the fir-tree, and in place of the blackberry the myrtle: and it will be to the Lord for a name, for an eternal sign which will not be cut off.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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