55:1   If you are thirsty, come and drink water! If you don't have any money, come, eat what you want! Drink wine and milk without paying a cent.

55:2   Why waste your money on what really isn't food? Why work hard for something that doesn't satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and you will enjoy the very best foods.

55:3   Pay close attention! Come to me and live. I will promise you the eternal love and loyalty that I promised David.

55:4   I made him the leader and ruler of the nations; he was my witness to them.

55:5   You will call out to nations you have never known. And they have never known you, but they will come running because I am the LORD, the holy God of Israel, and I have honored you.

55:6   Turn to the LORD! He can still be found. Call out to God! He is near.

55:7   Give up your crooked ways and your evil thoughts. Return to the LORD our God. He will be merciful and forgive your sins.

55:8   The LORD says: "My thoughts and my ways are not like yours.

55:9   Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, my thoughts and my ways are higher than yours.

55:10   "Rain and snow fall from the sky. But they don't return without watering the earth that produces seeds to plant and grain to eat.

55:11   That's how it is with my words. They don't return to me without doing everything I send them to do."

55:12   When you are set free, you will celebrate and travel home in peace. Mountains and hills will sing as you pass by, and trees will clap.

55:13   Cypress and myrtle trees will grow in fields once covered by thorns. And then those trees will stand as a lasting witness to the glory of the LORD.