Isaiah 55:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.

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  • Ps 22:26 : 26 The humble do eat and are satisfied, Praise Jehovah do those seeking Him, Your heart doth live for ever.
  • Jer 31:14 : 14 And satisfied the soul of the priests `with' fatness, And My people with My goodness are satisfied, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.
  • John 6:48-58 : 48 I am the bread of the life; 49 your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died; 50 this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die. 51 `I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.' 52 The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us `his' flesh to eat?' 53 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves; 54 he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day; 55 for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink; 56 he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him. 57 `According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me; 58 this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.'
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells -- broken wells, That contain not the waters.
  • Exod 15:26 : 26 and He saith, `If thou dost really hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and dost that which is right in His eyes, and hast hearkened to His commands, and kept all His statutes: none of the sickness which I laid on the Egyptians do I lay on thee, for I, Jehovah, am healing thee.
  • Deut 11:13 : 13 `And it hath been -- if thou hearken diligently unto My commands which I am commanding you to-day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul --
  • Rom 9:31 : 31 and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;
  • Rom 10:2-3 : 2 for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge, 3 for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.
  • Rom 10:17 : 17 so then the faith `is' by a report, and the report through a saying of God,
  • Phil 3:4-7 : 4 though I also have `cause of' trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more; 5 circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee! 6 according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless! 7 But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for `it is' good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 Ephraim is enjoying wind, And is pursuing an east wind, All the day lying and spoiling he multiplieth, And a covenant with Asshur they make, And oil to Egypt is carried.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?
  • Matt 15:9 : 9 and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings -- commands of men.'
  • Matt 22:4 : 4 `Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things `are' ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts;
  • Mark 7:14 : 14 And having called near all the multitude, he said to them, `Hearken to me, ye all, and understand;
  • Luke 15:15-16 : 15 and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine, 16 and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.
  • Luke 15:23 : 23 and having brought the fatted calf, kill `it', and having eaten, we may be merry,
  • Ps 34:11 : 11 Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you.
  • Ps 36:8 : 8 They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.
  • Ps 63:5 : 5 As `with' milk and fatness is my soul satisfied, And `with' singing lips doth my mouth praise.
  • Prov 1:33 : 33 And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And `is' quiet from fear of evil!'
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life.
  • Prov 8:32 : 32 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways.
  • Prov 9:5 : 5 `Come, eat of my bread, And drink of the wine I have mingled.
  • Eccl 6:2 : 2 A man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this `is' vanity, and it `is' an evil disease.
  • Isa 1:19 : 19 If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,
  • Isa 25:6 : 6 And made hath Jehovah of Hosts, For all the peoples in this mount, A banquet of fat things, a banquet of preserved things, Fat things full of marrow, preserved things refined.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: `Is there not a lie in my right hand?'
  • Isa 46:6 : 6 -- They are pouring out gold from a bag, And silver on the beam they weigh, They hire a refiner, and he maketh it a god, They fall down, yea, they bow themselves.
  • Isa 51:1 : 1 Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock -- ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit -- ye have been digged.
  • Isa 51:4 : 4 Attend unto Me, O My people, And, O My nation, unto Me give ear. For a law from Me goeth out, And My judgment to the light, Peoples I do cause to rest.
  • Isa 51:7 : 7 Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart `is' My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

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