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Isaiah 55:3-13

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3 Incline your ear, and come to me; 1hear, that your soul may live; 2and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, 3my steadfast, sure love for 4David.
4 5Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, 6a leader and commander for the peoples.
5 7Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and 8a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, 9for he has glorified you.
6 10"Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
9 11For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 12"For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, 13giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but 14it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
12 15"For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; 16the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 17Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."
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Isaiah 55:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 55

As the two preceding chapters are prophecies of Christ and his church, this treats of his word and ordinances, and of the nature, use, and efficacy of them. It begins with an invitation of thirsty souls to them, Isa 55:1, an expostulation with them for taking wrong methods, and a dissuasive from them, Isa 55:2, which is followed with an exhortation to hear the word of Christ, attend on his ordinances; to which they are encouraged with promises of life and covenant blessings, Isa 55:2,3. Christ is prophesied of in his offices; and the conversion of the Gentiles to him is foretold, Isa 55:4,5, men are called upon to seek the Lord, where and while he might be found; and both wicked and unrighteous persons, forsaking their ways and thoughts, are encouraged to turn to the Lord, in hopes of pardon, and in consideration of his ways and thoughts not being like theirs, Isa 55:6-9, the nature and efficacy of the word of God are expressed and illustrated by the similes of rain and snow, Isa 55:10,11, and the conversion of the Lord's people, in consequence of the word being made effectual, is predicted, the issue of which is the glory of God, Isa 55:12,13.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 17

  • 1. Proverbs 4:4
  • 2. Isaiah 61:8; Jeremiah 32:40; Ezekiel 37:26; [Isaiah 54:8; Isaiah 59:21]
  • 3. Psalms 89:33-35; [Acts 13:34]
  • 4. Jeremiah 30:9
  • 5. Psalms 18:43
  • 6. Daniel 9:25; Micah 5:2; Acts 5:31; Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:16; [Isaiah 9:6, 7]
  • 7. [See ver. 4 above]
  • 8. Zechariah 8:22, 23
  • 9. [Isaiah 44:23; Acts 3:13]
  • 10. Psalms 32:6; Amos 5:4
  • 11. Psalms 103:11
  • 12. [Psalms 148:8]
  • 13. [2 Corinthians 9:10]
  • 14. Isaiah 40:8
  • 15. Isaiah 35:10; [Isaiah 48:20, 21; Isaiah 52:12]
  • 16. Isaiah 44:23; Psalms 98:8
  • 17. Isaiah 35:1, 2; Isaiah 41:19
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