Isaiah 55:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Why do you spend silver on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves #– # cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.

Hebrews 13:9

Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by food regulations, since those who observe them have not benefited.

Jeremiah 31:14

I will refresh the priests with an abundance,  , and my people will be satisfied with my goodness. This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the  Lord of Armies that the peoples labour only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?

Hosea 8:7

Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing corn; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it did, foreigners would swallow it up.

Isaiah 51:7

Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my instruction: do not fear disgrace by men, and do not be shattered by their taunts.

Mark 7:14

Summoning  the crowd again, he told them, ‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand:

Matthew 22:4

Again, he sent out other servants and said, “Tell those who are invited: See, I’ve prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”

Isaiah 51:1

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

Romans 9:31

But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness,  has not achieved the righteousness of the law.  ,

Matthew 15:9

They worship me in vain, eaching as doctrines human commands.’   ,

Isaiah 51:4

Pay attention to me, my people, and listen to me, my nation; for instruction will come from me, and my justice for a light to the nations. I will bring it about quickly.

Isaiah 1:19

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land.

Proverbs 9:5

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

Romans 10:17

So faith comes from what is heard,  and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.  ,

Luke 15:23

Then bring the fattened calf   and slaughter it, and let’s celebrate with a feast,

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim chases  the wind and pursues the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and violence. He makes a covenant with Assyria, and olive oil is carried to Egypt.

Isaiah 46:6

Those who pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales – they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god. Then they kneel and bow down to it.

Isaiah 25:6

On this mountain,  , the Lord of Armies will prepare for all the peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast with aged wine, prime cuts of choice meat,  fine vintage wine.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

God gives a person riches, wealth, and honour  so that he lacks nothing of all he desires for himself,  but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a sickening tragedy.

Proverbs 8:32

‘And now, sons, listen to me; those who keep my ways are happy.

Deuteronomy 11:13

‘If you carefully obey my commands I am giving you today, to love the Lord your God and worship him with all your heart and all your soul,

Exodus 15:26

He said, ‘If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in his sight, pay attention to his commands, and keep all his statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.’

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on   ashes. His deceived mind has led him astray, and he cannot rescue himself, or say, ‘Isn’t there a lie in my right hand? ’

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces its   liver, like a bird darting into a snare   – he doesn’t know it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 1:33

But whoever listens to me will live securely and be undisturbed by the dread of danger.’

Matthew 5:6

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

John 6:27

Don’t work for the food that perishes   but for the food that lasts for eternal life,   which the Son of Man   will give you, because God the Father   has set his seal of approval on him.’

Isaiah 10:27

On that day his burden will fall from your shoulders, and his yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.  ,

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn with his right hand and his strong arm: I will no longer give your grain to your enemies for food, and foreigners will not drink the new wine for which you have laboured.

Isaiah 62:9

For those who gather grain will eat it and praise the  Lord, and those who harvest the grapes will drink the wine in my holy courts.

Isaiah 65:23

They will not labour without success or bear children destined for disaster, for they will be a people blessed by the  Lord along with their descendants.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves but have no profit. Be put to shame by your harvests because of the  Lord’s burning anger.

Jeremiah 17:24

‘ “However, if you listen to me #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #and do not bring loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it,