Isaiah 55:2

Modern English Version

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:13

For My people have committed two evils. They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Psalm 36:8

They will drink their fill from the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures.

Psalm 22:26

The meek will eat and be satisfied; those who seek Him will praise the Lord. May your hearts live forever.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away with diverse and strange teachings. It is a good thing that the heart be strengthened with grace, not with foods, which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

Jeremiah 31:14

I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the Lord.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the Lord of Hosts that the people labor to feed fire, and the nations weary themselves for nothing?

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no head and will yield no flour. If it were to yield, foreigners would swallow it up.

Isaiah 51:7

Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My law; do not fear the reproach of men nor be afraid of their revilings.

Mark 7:14

When He had called all the people to Him, He said, “Listen to Me, every one of you, and understand:

Matthew 22:4

“Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited: See, I have prepared my supper. My oxen and fattened calves are killed, 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 hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug.

Psalm 63:5

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

Romans 9:31

but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, did not attain the law of righteousness.

Matthew 15:9

In vain they do worship Me, teaching as instructions from the precepts of men.’ ”

Isaiah 51:4

Listen to Me, O My people; and give ear to Me, O My nation: for a law shall proceed from Me, and I will set My justice as a light of the peoples.

Isaiah 1:19

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

Proverbs 9:5

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

Psalm 34:11

Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Romans 10:17

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Luke 15:23

Bring here the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and be merry.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feeds on the wind and chases after the east wind all day long. He multiplies lies and devastation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

Isaiah 46:6

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver on the scales; they hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; they fall down and worship it.

Isaiah 25:6

In this mountain the Lord of Hosts shall prepare for all people a lavish feast, a feast of aged wines, choice pieces full of marrow, and refined, aged wines.

Ecclesiastes 6:2

a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God does not give him ability to enjoy these things, because another man enjoys his possessions. This is vanity and a tormenting injustice.

Proverbs 8:32

“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways.

Deuteronomy 11:13

It will be, if you will diligently obey My commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Exodus 15:26

He said, “If you diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will not afflict you with any of the diseases with which I have afflicted the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside so that he cannot deliver his soul, or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces his liver; as a bird darting into the snare, he did not know that it would cost him his life.

Proverbs 1:33

But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, and will be at ease without fear of evil.”

Matthew 5:6

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

John 6:27

Do not work for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

Isaiah 10:27

In that day his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck; and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm: Surely I will no longer give your grain as food for your enemies; and the sons of the foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored.

Isaiah 62:9

But those who have gathered it shall eat it and praise the Lord; and those who have brought it shall drink it in the courts of My sanctuary.

Isaiah 65:23

They shall not labor in vain nor bring forth children for trouble; for they are the descendants of the blessed of the Lord and their offspring with them.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, but reap thorns; they have strained themselves, but shall not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:24

It shall come to pass, if you diligently listen to Me, says the Lord, to bring in no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but sanctify the Sabbath day to do no work in it,