2. Why do you spend money for what is not bread,And your wages for what does not satisfy?Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
3. Incline your ear, and come to Me.Hear, and your soul shall live;And I will make an everlasting covenant with you—The sure mercies of David.
4. Indeed I have given him as a witness to the people,A leader and commander for the people.
5. Surely you shall call a nation you do not know,And nations who do not know you shall 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 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,And He will have mercy on him;And to our God,For He will abundantly pardon.
8. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,Nor are your ways 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 do not return there,But water the earth,And make it bring forth and bud,That it may give seed to the sowerAnd bread to the eater,