Isaiah 55:2

A Conservative Version

Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Psalm 36:8

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house, and thou will make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

Psalm 22:26

The meek shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise LORD who seek after him. Let your heart live forever.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not carried away by various and foreign doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods by which those who walked were not benefited.

Jeremiah 31:14

And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says LORD.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not of LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

Isaiah 51:7

Hearken to me, ye who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Fear ye not the reproach of men, nor be ye dismayed at their revilings.

Mark 7:14

And having summoned all the people, he said to them, Hear me all of you, and understand.

Matthew 22:4

Again he sent forth other bondmen, saying, Speak to those who were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings have been killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding festivities.

Isaiah 51:1

Hearken to me, ye who follow after righteousness, ye who seek LORD. Look to the rock from where ye were hewn, and to the hold of the pit from where ye were dug.

Psalm 63:5

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness. And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips

Romans 9:31

But Israel who pursued a law of righteousness, did not arrive to a law of righteousness.

Matthew 15:9

And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

Isaiah 51:4

Attend to me, O my people, and give ear to me, O my nation. For a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.

Isaiah 1:19

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

Proverbs 9:5

Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

Psalm 34:11

Come, ye children, hearken to me. I will teach you the fear of LORD.

Romans 10:17

So faith is from hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Luke 15:23

And having brought the fatted calf, kill it, and having eaten, we will be cheerful,

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Isaiah 46:6

Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down, yea, they worship.

Isaiah 25:6

And in this mountain LORD of hosts will make to all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the dregs, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the dregs well refined.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

A man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Proverbs 8:32

Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me. For blessed are those who keep my ways.

Deuteronomy 11:13

And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Exodus 15:26

and he said, If thou will diligently hearken to the voice of LORD thy God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, wh

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

Proverbs 1:33

But he who hearkens to me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.

Matthew 5:6

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

John 6:27

Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for God the Father put a seal on this man.

Isaiah 10:27

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of fatness.

Isaiah 62:8

LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies, and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou have labored.

Isaiah 62:9

But those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise LORD. And those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.

Isaiah 65:23

They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity. For they are the seed of the blessed of LORD, and their offspring with them.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing. And ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of LORD.

Jeremiah 17:24

And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken to me, says LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work in it,