Seek Yahweh While He May Be Found
“Ho! Every one who athirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have bno money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy cwine and milk
dWithout money and without cost.
2 Why do you spend money for what is anot bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and beat what is good,
And cdelight your soul in richness.
3 aIncline your ear and come to Me.
Listen, that your soul may blive;
And I will cut can everlasting covenant with you,
According to the dfaithful lovingkindnesses of David.
4 Behold, I have given ahim as a witness to the peoples,
A bruler and commander for the peoples.
5 Behold, you will call a anation you do not know,
And a nation which knows you not will brun to you,
Because of Yahweh your God, even the Holy One of Israel;
For He has cadorned you with beautiful glory.”
6 aSeek Yahweh while He may be found;
bCall upon Him while He is near.
7 aLet the wicked forsake his way
And the unrighteous man his bthoughts;
And let him creturn to Yahweh,
And He will have dcompassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will eabundantly pardon.
8 “For My thoughts are not ayour thoughts,
Nor are byour ways My ways,” declares Yahweh.
9 “For aas 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 arain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And giving bseed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 So will My aword be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will bnot return to Me empty,
Without caccomplishing what pleases Me,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
12 For you will go out with agladness
And be led forth with bpeace;
The cmountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you,
And all the dtrees of the field will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the athorn bush the bcypress will come up,
And instead of the cnettle the myrtle will come up,
And it will be to Yahweh for His drenown,
For an everlasting esign which fwill not be cut off.”