Isaiah 55:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what does not satisfy? Only listen to me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare.

Cross References

Psalm 22:26

I will offer praise in the great assembly; my vows I will fulfill before those who fear him.

Psalm 34:11

The rich grow poor and go hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Psalm 36:8

How precious is your mercy, O God! The children of Adam take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Psalm 63:5

I will bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my hands, calling on your name.

Exodus 15:26

He said: If you listen closely to the voice of the Lord, your God, and do what is right in his eyes: if you heed his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not afflict you with any of the diseases with which I afflicted the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.

Proverbs 1:33

But whoever obeys me dwells in security, in peace, without fear of harm.”

Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow pierces its liver; Like a bird that rushes into a snare, unaware that his life is at stake.

Proverbs 8:32

Now, children, listen to me; happy are they who keep my ways.

Proverbs 9:5

Come, eat of my food, and drink of the wine I have mixed!

Ecclesiastes 6:2

There is one to whom God gives riches and property and honor, and who lacks nothing the heart could desire; yet God does not grant the power to partake of them, but a stranger devours them. This is vanity and a dire plague.

Isaiah 1:19

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

Isaiah 10:27

On that day, His burden shall be taken from your shoulder, and his yoke shattered from your neck. He has come up from Rimmon,

Isaiah 25:6

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will provide for all peoples A feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.

Isaiah 44:20

He is chasing ashes! A deluded mind has led him astray; He cannot save himself, does not say, “This thing in my right hand—is it not a fraud?”

Isaiah 46:6

There are those who pour out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scales; They hire a goldsmith to make it into a god before which they bow down in worship.

Isaiah 51:1

Listen to me, you who pursue justice, who seek the Lord; Look to the rock from which you were hewn, to the quarry from which you were taken;

Isaiah 51:4

Be attentive to me, my people; my nation, give ear to me. For teaching shall go forth from me, and my judgment, as light to the peoples.

Isaiah 51:7

Hear me, you who know justice, you people who have my teaching at heart: Do not fear the reproach of others; remain firm at their revilings.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: No more will I give your grain as food to your enemies; Nor shall foreigners drink the wine, for which you toiled.

Isaiah 62:9

But those who harvest shall eat, and praise the Lord; Those who gather shall drink in my holy courts.

Isaiah 65:23

They shall not toil in vain, nor beget children for sudden destruction; For they shall be a people blessed by the Lord and their descendants with them.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat and reaped thorns, they have tired themselves out for no purpose; They are shamed by their harvest, the burning anger of the Lord. Judah’s Neighbors.

Jeremiah 17:24

If you truly obey me—oracle of the Lord—and carry no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath, keeping the sabbath day holy and abstaining from all work on it,

Jeremiah 2:13

Two evils my people have done: they have forsaken me, the source of living waters; They have dug themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 31:14

I will lavish choice portions on the priests, and my people shall be filled with my blessings— oracle of the Lord.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, the house of Israel, with deceit; Judah still wanders about with gods, and is faithful to holy ones.

Hosea 8:7

When they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind; The stalk of grain that forms no head can yield no flour; Even if it could, strangers would swallow it.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is this not from the Lord of hosts: peoples toil for what the flames consume, and nations grow weary for nothing!

Matthew 15:9

in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts.’”

Matthew 22:4

A second time he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those invited: “Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast.”’

Matthew 5:6

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

Mark 7:14

He summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.

Luke 15:23

Take the fattened calf and slaughter it. Then let us celebrate with a feast,

John 6:27

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

Romans 10:17

Thus faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.

Romans 9:31

but that Israel, who pursued the law of righteousness, did not attain to that law?

Deuteronomy 11:13

If, then, you truly listen to my commandments which I give you today, loving and serving the Lord, your God, with your whole heart and your whole being,

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teaching. It is good to have our hearts strengthened by grace and not by foods, which do not benefit those who live by them.