Isaiah 55:3 “Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I…”

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

World English Bible

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

American Standard Version

Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Geneva Bible 1599

Encline your eares, and come vnto me: heare, and your soule shall liue, and I will make an euerlasting couenant with you, euen the sure mercies of Dauid.

Darby Translation

Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.

Young's Literal Translation

Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David — that are stedfast.

Bible in Basic English

Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.

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Cross references

“Incline”

Proverbs 4:20 Psalm 78:1 Psalm 119:112

Proverbs 4:20 · BSB

My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

Psalm 78:1 · BSB

Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.

Psalm 119:112 · BSB

I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.

“come”

Matthew 11:28 John 6:37 John 7:37 John 6:44 John 6:45

Matthew 11:28 · BSB

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

John 6:37 · BSB

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

John 7:37 · BSB

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

John 6:44 · BSB

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:45 · BSB

It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

“hear”

John 10:27 Matthew 17:5 John 8:47 Matthew 13:16 John 5:24 John 5:25

John 10:27 · BSB

My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

Matthew 17:5 · BSB

While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”

John 8:47 · BSB

Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

Matthew 13:16 · BSB

But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

John 5:24 · BSB

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

John 5:25 · BSB

Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

“and I will”

Jeremiah 32:40 Genesis 17:7 Isaiah 61:8 Isaiah 54:8 2 Samuel 23:5 Jeremiah 50:5

Jeremiah 32:40 · BSB

I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

Genesis 17:7 · BSB

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Isaiah 61:8 · BSB

For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

Isaiah 54:8 · BSB

In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.

2 Samuel 23:5 · BSB

Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?

Jeremiah 50:5 · BSB

They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

“the sure”

Acts 13:34 Psalm 89:28 Psalm 89:35–37 2 Samuel 7:8–17 Jeremiah 33:26 Jeremiah 33:20

Acts 13:34 · BSB

In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’

Psalm 89:28 · BSB

I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.

Psalm 89:35–37 · BSB

Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—

2 Samuel 7:8–17 · BSB

Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.

Jeremiah 33:26 · BSB

then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will…

Jeremiah 33:20 · BSB

“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

Also

Leviticus 18:5 Jeremiah 30:9 Romans 10:5

Leviticus 18:5 · BSB

Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

Jeremiah 30:9 · BSB

Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

Romans 10:5 · BSB

For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

4Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.

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