# Isaiah 55 📖: Come to the Waters [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Isaiah Overview]] | [[Isaiah 54]] | [[Isaiah 56]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### The Lord Gives an Invitation [[#Verse 01.]] “Hey, all who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come! Buy and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without cost. [[#Verse 02.]] Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food. [[#Verse 03.]] Pay attention and come to me. Listen, so you can live. Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David. [[#Verse 04.]] Look, I made him a witness to nations, a ruler and commander of nations.” [[#Verse 05.]] Look, you will summon nations you did not previously know; nations that did not previously know you will run to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he bestows honor on you. [[#Verse 06.]] Seek the Lord while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby! [[#Verse 07.]] The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them. [[#Verse 08.]] “Indeed, my plans are not like your plans, and my deeds are not like your deeds,” says the Lord, [[#Verse 09.]] “for just as the sky is higher than the earth, so my deeds are superior to your deeds and my plans superior to your plans. [[#Verse 10.]] The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat. [[#Verse 11.]] In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend.” [[#Verse 12.]] Indeed you will go out with joy; you will be led along in peace; the mountains and hills will give a joyful shout before you, and all the trees in the field will clap their hands. [[#Verse 13.]] Evergreens will grow in place of thorn bushes, firs will grow in place of nettles; they will be a monument to the Lord, a permanent reminder that will remain. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. The call Come, all who are thirsty (55:1) is echoed in Revelation 22:17. 2. Water, wine, and milk (55:1) were the basic drinks of life and celebration. 3. The everlasting covenant and the faithful promises to David (55:3) point back to 2 Samuel 7:12-16. 4. Paul quotes 55:3 in Acts 13:34 as a promise fulfilled when God raised Jesus from the dead. 5. Seek the Lord while He may be found (55:6) carries a sense of urgency, because opportunities to respond are not unlimited. 6. God says He will freely forgive (55:7), literally He will multiply pardon. 7. God's thoughts are higher than ours (55:8-9), not only in power but in mercy. 8. Rain and snow returning to heaven only after watering the earth (55:10) is a picture from the water cycle familiar in Israel's dry climate. 9. Mountains singing and trees clapping (55:12) is poetic language for creation's joy. 10. Thorns and briers replaced by cypress and myrtle (55:13) reverses the curse on the ground (Genesis 3:18). ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the One who invites the thirsty to come and drink freely (55:1). Jesus says, if anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me (John 7:37). Paul says the faithful promises to David are fulfilled in Jesus' resurrection (55:3; Acts 13:34). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. God invites people to come and buy without money (55:1). Why is it hard for people to receive what is free? 2. Why spend money on what does not satisfy? (55:2). Where are people looking for satisfaction outside of God? 3. God's word will not return empty (55:10-11). How does that give you confidence when you share or teach God's Word? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 1: Come, all who are thirsty; buy without money and without cost. - 📖 verses 8-9: God's thoughts and ways are higher than ours as the sky is higher than the earth. - 📖 verse 11: God's word will not return empty but will accomplish His purpose. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[John 07#Verse 37.|John 7:37-38]] - If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me. - 🔗 [[Revelation 22#Verse 17.|Revelation 22:17]] - Whoever is thirsty, let him come. - 🔗 [[Acts 13#Verse 32.|Acts 13:32-35]] - The sure blessings of David. - 🔗 [[John 06#Verse 35.|John 6:35]] - I am the bread of life. - 🔗 [[Hebrews 04#Verse 12.|Hebrews 4:12]] - The word of God is living and active. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Isaiah 55 - SOAP|It’s Our Turn]] ## 📂 Internal Notes