New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 Come, all who are thirsty, come, fetch water;
come, you who have no food, buy corn and eat;
come and buy, not for money, not for a price. note
2 Why spend money and get what is not bread,
why give the price of your labour and go unsatisfied?
Only listen to me and you will have good food to eat,
and you will enjoy the fat of the land.
3 Come to me and listen to my words,
hear me, and you shall have life:
I will make a covenant with you, this time for ever,
to love you faithfully as I loved David.
4 I made him a witness to all races,
a prince and instructor of peoples;
5 and you in turn shall summon nations you do not know,
and nations that do not know you shall come running to you,
because the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, has glorified you.
6 Inquire of the Lord while he is present,
call upon him when he is close at hand.
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Israel a light to the nations
7 Let the wicked abandon their ways
and evil men their thoughts:
let them return to the Lord, who will have pity on them,
return to our God, for he will freely forgive.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways.
This is the very word of the Lord.
9 For as note the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts;
10 and as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return until they have watered the earth,
making it blossom and bear fruit,
and give seed for sowing and bread to eat,
11 so shall the word which comes from my mouth prevail;
it shall not return to me fruitless
without accomplishing my purpose
or succeeding in the task I gave it.
12 You shall indeed go out with joy
and be led forth in peace.
Before you mountains and hills shall break into cries of joy,
and all the trees of the wild shall clap their hands,
13 pine-trees shall shoot up in place of camel-thorn,
myrtles instead of briars;
all this shall win the Lord a great name,
imperishable, a sign for all time.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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