Isaiah 55:2

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have done two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Psalm 36:8

Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil.

Hebrews 13:9

Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats; which have not profited those that walk in them.

Jeremiah 31:14

And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness: and my people shall be filled with my good things, saith the Lord.

Habakkuk 2:13

Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.

Hosea 8:7

For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; end if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.

Isaiah 51:7

Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men and be not afraid of their blasphemies.

Mark 7:14

And calling again the multitude unto him, he said to them: Hear ye me all, and understand.

Matthew 22:4

Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come ye to the marriage.

Isaiah 51:1

GIVE ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord. Look unto the rock whence you are hewn and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out.

Psalm 63:5

to shoot in secret the undefiled.

Romans 9:31

But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.

Matthew 15:9

And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.

Isaiah 51:4

Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear to me, O my tribes: for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment shall rest to be a light of the nations.

Isaiah 1:19

If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.

Proverbs 9:5

Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you.

Psalm 34:11

Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.

Romans 10:17

Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ.

Luke 15:23

And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and make merry:

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.

Isaiah 46:6

You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out silver in the scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and worship.

Isaiah 25:6

And the Lord of hosts shall make unto all people, in this mountain, a feast of fat things: a feast of wine, of fat things full of marrow, of wine purified from the lees.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery.

Proverbs 8:32

Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.

Deuteronomy 11:13

If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day, that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul:

Exodus 15:26

Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do what is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer.

Isaiah 44:20

Part thereof is ashes. His foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.

Proverbs 7:23

Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.

Proverbs 1:33

But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.

John 6:27

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

Isaiah 10:27

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck; and the yoke shall putrify at the presence of the oil.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength: Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured.

Isaiah 62:9

For they that gather it shall eat it and shall praise the Lord: and they that bring it together shall drink it in my holy courts.

Isaiah 65:23

My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:24

And it shall come to pass, if you will hearken to me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burdens by the gates of this city on the sabbath day, and if you will sanctify the sabbath day to do no work therein: