1Woe, everyone who thirsts! Come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy grain and eat; come, buy grain without money and without price, wine and milk.2Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread, and your toil for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.3Incline your ear and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will cut for you an everlasting covenant, the faithful kindnesses of David.4Behold, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.5Behold, a nation you do not know you shall call, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God and the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.6Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of wickedness his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly forgive.8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.10For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there unless they water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,11so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty unless it does what I delight in, and succeeds in that for which I sent it.12For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.13Instead of the thorn bush shall come up the cypress; instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.