Isaiah 55:2

Modern King James Version

Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Cross References

Psalm 22:26

The meek shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek Jehovah shall praise Him; your heart shall live forever.

Psalm 34:11

Come, listen to me, my sons; I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.

Psalm 36:8

They shall be satisfied with the fatness of Your house; and You shall make them drink of the river of Your pleasures.

Psalm 63:5

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

Exodus 15:26

And he said, If you will carefully listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, and will do that which is right in His sight, and will give ear to His commandments, and keep all His Laws, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am Jehovah who heals you.

Proverbs 1:33

But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Proverbs 7:23

until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare and does not know that it is for his soul.

Proverbs 8:32

And now listen to me, O sons; for blessed are those who keep my ways.

Proverbs 9:5

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

Ecclesiastes 6:2

a man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Isaiah 1:19

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

Isaiah 10:27

And it shall be, 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.

Isaiah 25:6

And in this mountain Jehovah of Hosts shall make a feast of fat things for all the people, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of refined wine on the lees.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Isaiah 46:6

They pour gold out of the bag, and weigh silver out of the measuring rod, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god; they fall down, yea, they bow down.

Isaiah 51:1

Listen to me, pursuers of righteousness; seekers of Jehovah: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.

Isaiah 51:4

Listen to Me, My people; and give ear to Me, O My nation; for a law shall go out from Me, and I will make My judgment to rest for a light of peoples.

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.

Isaiah 62:8

Jehovah has sworn by His right hand, and by the arm of His strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and the sons of strangers will not drink your wine for which you have labored.

Isaiah 62:9

But its gatherers will eat it and praise Jehovah; and they who collected it will drink it in My holy courts.

Isaiah 65:23

They will not labor in vain, nor bring forth for terror. For they are the seed of the beloved of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns. They are worn out, but they do not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 17:24

And it shall be, if you carefully listen to Me, says Jehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy, to do no work in it;

Jeremiah 2:13

For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 31:14

And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says Jehovah.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feeds on wind and follows after the east wind. He daily multiplies lies and cruelty. And they make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; if it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not for Jehovah of Hosts that the people labor only for fire; yea, the nations weary themselves only for vanity?

Matthew 15:9

But in vain they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."

Matthew 22:4

Again he sent out other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage.

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness! For they shall be filled.

Mark 7:14

And calling near all the crowd, He said to them, Listen to Me, every one of you, and understand.

Luke 15:23

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

John 6:27

Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for that food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you. For God the Father sealed Him.

Romans 10:17

Then faith is of hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

Romans 9:31

But Israel, who followed after a law of righteousness did not arrive at a law of righteousness.

Deuteronomy 11:13

And it will be, if you will listen carefully to My commandments which I command you today, to love Jehovah your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.