Isaiah 55:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your earnings for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your earnings for what does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness [the profuseness of spiritual joy]. [Jer. 31:12-14.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Common English Bible

² Why spend money for what isn’t food, and your earnings for what doesn’t satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is good; enjoy the richest of feasts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and expend your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen very closely to me, and eat what is good, and then your soul will be delighted by a full measure.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Why 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.

Isaiah 55:2 Cross References

Psalm 22:26

The poor shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord. May your hearts live forever!

Psalm 34:11

Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Psalm 36:8

They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.

Psalm 63:5

My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast, and my mouth praises you with joyful lips

Exodus 15:26

He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not bring upon you any of the diseases that I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you.”

Proverbs 1:33

but those who listen to me will be secure and will live at ease without dread of disaster.”

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 8:32

“And now, my children, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.

Proverbs 9:5

“Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

those to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that they lack nothing of all that they desire, yet God does not enable them to enjoy these things, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous ill.

Isaiah 1:19

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land,

Isaiah 10:27

On that day his burden will be removed from your shoulder, and his yoke will be destroyed from your neck. He has gone up from Samaria;

Isaiah 25:6

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”

Isaiah 46:6

Those who lavish gold from the purse and weigh out silver in the scales— they hire a goldsmith, who makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!

Isaiah 51:1

Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord. Look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug.

Isaiah 51:4

Listen to me, my people, and give heed to me, my nation, for a teaching will go out from me and my justice for a light to the peoples.

Isaiah 51:7

Listen to me, you who know righteousness, you people who have my teaching in your hearts; do not fear the reproach of others, and do not be dismayed when they revile you.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink the wine for which you have labored,

Isaiah 62:9

but those who harvest it shall eat it and praise the Lord, and those who gather it shall drink it in my holy courts.

Isaiah 65:23

They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be offspring blessed by the Lord— and their descendants as well.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:24

But if you listen to me, says the Lord, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it,

Jeremiah 2:13

for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 31:14

I will give the priests their fill of fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my bounty, says the Lord.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim herds the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a treaty with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, foreigners would devour it.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only to feed the flames and nations weary themselves for nothing?

Matthew 15:9

in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.’ ”

Matthew 22:4

Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.’

Matthew 5:6

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Mark 7:14

Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand:

Luke 15:23

And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate,

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”

Romans 10:17

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.

Romans 9:31

but Israel, who did strive for the law of righteousness, did not attain that law.

Deuteronomy 11:13

“If you will only heed his every commandment that I am commanding you today—loving the Lord your God and serving him with all your heart and with all your soul—

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food, which have not benefited those who observe them.