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Isa. 55:1 Come, everyone who thirsts. The invitation is urgent in tone and universal in scope. It addresses a deep spiritual longing to “seek the Lord while he may be found” (v. 6). This thirst is not a problem but an opportunity (see John 7:37–39).
Isa. 55:2 Why do you spend your money? Unbelief is costly and unfulfilling.
Isa. 55:3 an everlasting covenant. This term appears in 61:8; Jer. 32:40; Ezek. 37:26, referring to the experience of the returned exiles.
Isa. 55:5 You addresses the messianic servant. a nation that you do not know. That is, people previously outside of God’s covenant (see Eph. 2:11–12).
Isa. 55:6 Seek the Lord while he may be found. Since this is God’s offer, he is free to withdraw it. People should not be foolish and delay (see Ps. 32:6).
Isa. 55:7–9 let the wicked forsake his way . . . let him return. Thorough repentance is required. God’s thoughts are not your thoughts—that is, they are as high above man’s thoughts as the heavens are above the earth (see Ps. 145:3; 1 Cor. 2:9).
Isa. 55:10–11 As the rain and the snow cannot fail to nourish the earth, so God’s word of promise cannot fail to bring his people into the richness and fullness of eternal life. The word of God not only describes a glorious future, it is God’s appointed means to create that future (see Ezek. 37:1–14).
Isa. 55:12–13 The prophet concludes chs. 40–55 with a vision of the triumph of God’s grace. The effects of sin and the fall (see Gen. 3:17; 6:11–13) are corrected and “the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God” (Rom. 8:21).
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