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Why do you spend money on what cannot nourish you
and your wages on what does not satisfy you?
Listen carefully to me:
Eat what is good, and enjoy the best foods.
Open your ears, and come to me!
Listen so that you may live!
I will make an everlasting promise [a] to you—
the blessings I promised to David.
I made him a witness to people,
a leader and a commander for people.

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Footnotes

  1. 55:3 Or “covenant.”

Why spend money on what is not bread,
    and your labor on what does not satisfy?(A)
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,(B)
    and you will delight in the richest(C) of fare.
Give ear and come to me;
    listen,(D) that you may live.(E)
I will make an everlasting covenant(F) with you,
    my faithful love(G) promised to David.(H)
See, I have made him a witness(I) to the peoples,
    a ruler and commander(J) of the peoples.

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