Isaiah 55:2

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Psalm 34:11

Unfair witnesses have risen up, interrogating me about things of which I am ignorant.

Psalm 36:8

Cease from wrath and leave behind rage. Do not choose to imitate the malicious.

Psalm 63:5

so that they may shoot arrows from hiding at the immaculate.

Exodus 15:26

saying: "If you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and obey his commands, and keep all his precepts, I will not bring upon you any of the distress that I imposed on Egypt. For I am the Lord, your healer."

Proverbs 1:33

But whoever will listen to me shall rest without terror, and shall have full enjoyment of abundance, without fear of evils."

Proverbs 7:23

until the arrow pierces his liver. It is just as if a bird were to hurry into the snare. And he does not know that his actions endanger his own soul.

Proverbs 8:32

Therefore, sons, hear me now. Blessed are those who preserve my ways.

Proverbs 9:5

"Approach. Eat my bread, and drink the wine that I have mixed for you.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

It is a man to whom God has given wealth, and resources, and honor; and out of all that he desires, nothing is lacking to his life; yet God does not grant him the ability to consume these things, but instead a man who is a stranger will devour them. This is emptiness and a great misfortune.

Isaiah 1:19

If you are willing, and you listen to me, then you will eat the good things of the land.

Isaiah 10:27

And this shall be in that day: his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, and his yoke will be taken away from your neck, and the yoke will decay at the appearance of the oil.

Isaiah 25:6

And the Lord of hosts will cause all the peoples on this mountain to feast on fatness, to feast on wine, a fatness full of marrow, a purified wine.

Isaiah 44:20

Part of it is ashes. His foolish heart adores it. And he will not liberate his soul, and he will not say, "Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand."

Isaiah 46:6

You take gold from a bag, and you weigh silver on a scale, so as to hire a goldsmith to make a god. And they fall prostrate and adore.

Isaiah 51:1

Listen to me, you who follow what is just and who seek the Lord. Pay attention to the rock from which you have been hewn, and to the walls of the pit from which you have been dug.

Isaiah 51:4

Pay attention to me, my people, and listen to me, my tribes. For a law will go forth from me, and my judgment will rest as a light for the nations.

Isaiah 51:7

Listen to me, you who know what is just, my people who have my law in their heart. Do not be afraid of disgrace among men, and do not dread their blasphemies.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn with his right hand and with the arm of his strength: "Certainly, I will no longer permit your grain to be the food of your enemies. And the sons of foreigners will not drink your wine, for which you have labored."

Isaiah 62:9

For those who gather it will eat it, and they will praise the Lord. And those who bring it together will drink it in my holy courts.

Isaiah 65:23

My elect will not labor in vain, and they will not bring forth in disorder. For they are the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity are with them.

Jeremiah 12:13

They sowed wheat, but they reaped thorns. They received an inheritance, but it will not benefit them. You will be confounded by your own fruits, because of the wrath of the fury of the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:24

And this shall be: If you listen to me, says the Lord, so that you do not carry in burdens through the gates of this city on the day of the Sabbath, and if you sanctify the day of the Sabbath, so that you do not do work in it,

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the Fountain of living water, and they have dug for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that are unable to hold water.

Jeremiah 31:14

And I will inebriate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be filled with my good things, says the Lord."

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feeds on wind and follows burning heat; all day long he multiplies lies and desolation. And he has entered into a pact with the Assyrians, and he has carried oil into Egypt.

Hosea 8:7

For they will sow wind and reap a whirlwind. It does not have a firm stalk; the bud will yield no grain. But if it does yield, strangers will eat it.

Habakkuk 2:13

Are not these things before the Lord of hosts? For the people will labor amid a great fire, and the nations will labor in emptiness, and they will fail.

Matthew 15:9

For in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and commandments of men.' "

Matthew 22:4

Again, he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell the invited: Behold, I have prepared my meal. My bulls and fatlings have been killed, and all is ready. Come to the wedding.'

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied.

Mark 7:14

And again, calling the crowd to him, he said to them: "Listen to me, all of you, and understand.

Luke 15:23

And bring the fatted calf here, and kill it. And let us eat and hold a feast.

John 6:27

Do not work for food that perishes, but for that which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."

Romans 10:17

Therefore, faith is from hearing, and hearing is through the Word of Christ.

Romans 9:31

Yet truly, Israel, though following the law of justice, has not arrived at the law of justice.

Deuteronomy 11:13

So then, if you obey my commandments, which I am instructing to you this day, so that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with your whole heart and your whole soul,

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be led away by changing or strange doctrines. And it is best for the heart to be sustained by grace, not by foods. For the latter have not been as useful to those who walked by them.