Ho! Everyone who thirsts,  ¹come to the  ²waters,
And you who have no money;
Come, buy and eat;
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.

Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And the result of your labor for what does not satisfy?
Hear Me attentively, and eat what is good,
And let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Incline your ear and come to Me;
Hear, so that your soul may live;
And I will make an eternal  ¹covenant with you,
Even the sure  ²mercies shown to  ³David.

Indeed, I have given  ¹Him as a Witness to the peoples,
A Leader and a Commander to the peoples.

Indeed, you will call a nation that you do not know,
And a nation that does not know you will run to you,
Because of Jehovah your God, even the Holy One of Israel,
For He has  ¹glorified you.

 ¹Seek Jehovah while He may be found;
 ²Call upon Him while He is near.

Let the wicked forsake his way,
And the  ¹evildoer, his thoughts;
And let him return to Jehovah, and He will have compassion on him;
And to our God, for He will pardon abundantly.

For My  ¹thoughts are not your thoughts,
And your ways are not My  ¹ways, declares Jehovah.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So My ways are higher than your ways,
And My thoughts higher than your thoughts.

For just as the rain comes down
And the snow from heaven,
And does not return there,
Until it waters the earth
And makes it bear and sprout forth,
That it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will not return to Me  ¹vainly,
But it will accomplish what I delight in,
And it will prosper in the matter to which I have  ²sent it.

For you will go out with rejoicing,
And you will be led forth in peace;
The mountains and the hills
Will break forth before you with a ringing shout,
And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

In place of the thornbush, the fir tree will come up;
In place of the brier, the myrtle will come up;
And it will be to Jehovah as a  ¹name,
As an eternal  ¹sign that will not be cut off.

Thus says Jehovah,
Preserve  ¹justice and do righteousness,
For My  ¹salvation is about to come
And My  ¹righteousness is about to be revealed.

Blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who takes hold of it,
Who keeps the  ¹Sabbath so as not to profane it
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.

And let not the son of a foreigner
Who has joined himself to Jehovah speak, saying,
Jehovah will surely separate me from His people;
Nor let the eunuch say,
Now I am a dry tree.

For thus says Jehovah,
To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths
And choose what pleases Me,
And hold fast My covenant,

To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial and a name
Better than that of sons and daughters;
I will give them an eternal name
Which will not be cut off.

Also the children of the foreigner who join themselves to Jehovah,
To minister to Him and to love the name of Jehovah,
To be servants to Him,
Everyone who keeps the Sabbath so as not to profane it
And holds fast My covenant,

Even these will I cause to come to My holy mountain
And to rejoice in My house of prayer;
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable upon My altar;
For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.

The Lord Jehovah, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares:
Yet will I gather  ¹others to Him besides those gathered to Him already.

All you animals of the field, come to eat,
All you animals of the forest.

His watchmen are blind;
All of them know nothing;
All of them are dumb dogs,
They cannot bark;
Dreamers who lie down
And love to slumber.

And these dogs are greedy;
They know no satisfaction.
And they are shepherds
Who lack understanding.
All of them have turned to their own way,
Each to his own gain, to the last of them.

Come, they say, let me get some wine,
And let us drink down some liquor;
And tomorrow will be like today,
Only much more abundant.

The righteous man perishes,
And no one takes it to heart;
And godly men are being swept away,
While no one considers
That the righteous man is being swept away from evil.

He enters into peace;
They rest in their  ¹beds,
Each who walks uprightly.

But draw near here,
You children of a sorceress,
You seed of an adulterer and of her who prostitutes herself.

Whom are you mocking,
And against whom are you opening your mouth wide
And sticking out your tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
A seed of falsehood,

Who inflame yourselves among the  ¹terebinths,
Under every flourishing tree,
Who slaughter the children in the valleys
Under the clefts of the rocks?

Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion,
They, yes, they are your lot.
Indeed, to them you have poured out a drink offering,
You have offered a meal offering.
Shall I ease Myself of these?

Upon a high and lofty mountain
You have set your bed.
Indeed, you went up there
To offer sacrifice.

And behind the door and doorpost
You have put your reminder.
For apart from Me, you have uncovered yourself and gone up;
You have extended your bed;
And you have made an agreement for yourself with them;
You loved their bed; you saw their nakedness.

And you went to the king with oil,
And you increased your perfumes;
You sent your envoys far away
And debased yourself even as far as Sheol.

You were wearied with the length of your way,
Yet you did not say, It is hopeless;
You found the renewing of your strength,
Therefore you did not weaken.

And whom have you been worried about and feared,
That you have lied and not remembered Me,
Nor taken it to heart?
Was I not silent, and that for a long time,
Yet you did not fear Me?

I will declare your righteousness
And your works,
Yet they will not profit you.

When you cry out, let your heaps of idols deliver you.
But the wind will carry them all away;
A breath will take them away.

But he who takes  ¹refuge in Me will inherit the land
And possess My holy mountain.

And it will be said,
Cast up, cast up; prepare the way;
Take up the obstacle out of the way of My people.

For thus says the high and exalted One,
Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I will dwell in the high and holy place,
And with the contrite and lowly of  ¹spirit,
To revive the spirit of the lowly
And to revive the heart of the contrite.

For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For the spirit would faint before Me,
And the souls which I have made.

Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry,
And I struck him; I hid Myself and was angry;
And he went on, turning away in the way of his heart.

I have seen his ways
And will heal him;
And I will lead him and restore comfort to him
And to his mourning ones,

Creating the fruit of the lips:
Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,
Says Jehovah; and I will heal him.

But the  ¹wicked are like the tossed sea,
For it cannot be calm,
And its waters toss up mire and mud.

There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.