Isaiah 55:2

New English Translation

Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!

Cross References

Psalm 22:26

Let the oppressed eat and be filled! Let those who seek his help praise the Lord! May you live forever!

Psalm 34:11

Come children! Listen to me! I will teach you what it means to fear the Lord.

Psalm 36:8

They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

Psalm 63:5

As if with choice meat you satisfy my soul. My mouth joyfully praises you,

Exodus 15:26

He said, “If you will diligently obey the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the Lord, am your healer.”

Proverbs 1:33

But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm.

Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow pierces his liver – like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 8:32

“So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

Proverbs 9:5

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

Ecclesiastes 6:2

God gives a man riches, property, and wealth so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to enjoy the fruit of his labor – instead, someone else enjoys it! This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.

Isaiah 1:19

If you have a willing attitude and obey, then you will again eat the good crops of the land.

Isaiah 10:27

At that time the Lord will remove their burden from your shoulders, and their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large.

Isaiah 25:6

The Lord who commands armies will hold a banquet for all the nations on this mountain. At this banquet there will be plenty of meat and aged wine – tender meat and choicest wine.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’

Isaiah 46:6

Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.

Isaiah 51:1

“Listen to me, you who pursue godliness, who seek the Lord! Look at the rock from which you were chiseled, at the quarry from which you were dug!

Isaiah 51:4

Pay attention to me, my people! Listen to me, my people! For I will issue a decree, I will make my justice a light to the nations.

Isaiah 51:7

Listen to me, you who know what is right, you people who are aware of my law! Don’t be afraid of the insults of men; don’t be discouraged because of their abuse!

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord swears an oath by his right hand, by his strong arm: “I will never again give your grain to your enemies as food, and foreigners will not drink your wine, which you worked hard to produce.

Isaiah 62:9

But those who harvest the grain will eat it, and will praise the Lord. Those who pick the grapes will drink the wine in the courts of my holy sanctuary.”

Isaiah 65:23

They will not work in vain, or give birth to children that will experience disaster. For the Lord will bless their children and their descendants.

Jeremiah 12:13

My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 17:24

The Lord says, ‘You must make sure to obey me. You must not bring any loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day. You must set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not do any work on that day.

Jeremiah 2:13

“Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”

Jeremiah 31:14

I will provide the priests with abundant provisions. My people will be filled to the full with the good things I provide.”

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim continually feeds on the wind; he chases the east wind all day; he multiplies lies and violence. They make treaties with Assyria, and send olive oil as tribute to Egypt.

Hosea 8:7

They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

Habakkuk 2:13

Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.

Matthew 15:9

and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Matthew 22:4

Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”’

Matthew 5:6

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

Mark 7:14

Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand.

Luke 15:23

Bring the fattened calf and kill it! Let us eat and celebrate,

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life – the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”

Romans 10:17

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

Romans 9:31

but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.

Deuteronomy 11:13

Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being,

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.