An invitation based on His sufferings
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📚✭“Ho, everyone who is thirsty✭,come to the waters✭;
and he who has no money,
come, buy✭ and eat;
yes, come, buy wine and milk✭
without money and without cost✭.
2 📚Why✭ do you spend money
for what is not bread?
and your labour for
what does not satisfy?
Listen✭ carefully to me,
and eat what is good,
and let your soul delight itself
in abundance.
3 📚Turn your ear and come to me.
Hear, and your soul will live✭,
and I will make an everlasting
covenant✭ with you,
the sure mercies of David.
4 📚See, I have given him✭ as
a witness to the people,
a leader and commander to the people.
5 📚See, you will call✭ a nation that
you do not know,
and nations that did not know
you will run to you because
of the LORD your God,
and the Holy One of Israel;
for he has glorified you”.
6 📚Seek✭ the LORD while he may be
found✭,
call✭ to him while he is near.
7 📚✭Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts✭,
and let him return to the LORD,
and he will have mercy on him;
and to our God,
for he will abundantly pardon✭.
God’s ways higher than man’s ways
8 📚✭“For my thoughts are not
your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways”,
says the LORD.
9 📚✭For as the heavens are higher
than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 📚✭For as the rain comes down,
and the snow from heaven,
and does not return there,
but waters the earth,
and makes it bring forth and bud,
that it may give seed to the sower,
and bread to the eater,
11 📚So will my word be that goes out
from my mouth;
it will not return to me void,
but it will accomplish what I please,
and it will succeed in the thing
I send it to do.
12 📚✭For you will go out with joy,
and be led forth with peace.
The mountains and the hills will break out
in front of you into singing,
and all the trees of the field will clap
their hands.
13 📚Instead of the thorn the fir tree
will come up,
and instead of the briar the myrtle
will come up;
and it will be to the LORD
for a name✭,
for an everlasting sign that
will not be cut off”.