Isaiah 55:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

Cross References

Psalm 22:26

The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.

Psalm 34:11

Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.

Psalm 36:8

The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

Psalm 63:5

My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;

Exodus 15:26

And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.

Proverbs 1:33

But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.

Proverbs 7:23

Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

Proverbs 8:32

Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

Proverbs 9:5

Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

Isaiah 1:19

If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

Isaiah 10:27

And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.

Isaiah 25:6

And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.

Isaiah 44:20

As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

Isaiah 46:6

As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

Isaiah 51:1

Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.

Isaiah 51:4

Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation; for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of the true God will be a light to the peoples.

Isaiah 51:7

Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done:

Isaiah 62:9

But those who have got in the grain will have it for their food, and will give praise to the Lord; and those who have got in the grapes will take the wine of them in the open places of my holy house.

Isaiah 65:23

Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.

Jeremiah 12:13

Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:24

And it will be, that if with all care you give ear to me, says the Lord, and take no weight through the doorways of this town on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work in it;

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

Jeremiah 31:14

I will give the priests their desired fat things, and my people will have a full measure of my good things, says the Lord.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.

Hosea 8:7

For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

Habakkuk 2:13

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

Matthew 15:9

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

Matthew 22:4

Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast.

Matthew 5:6

Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.

Mark 7:14

And turning to the people again, he said to them, Give ear to me all of you, and let my words be clear to you:

Luke 15:23

And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad.

John 6:27

Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.

Romans 10:17

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Romans 9:31

But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

Deuteronomy 11:13

And it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart and all your soul,

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.