Isaiah 55:2

God asks why people spend money and labor on what cannot satisfy, urging them to listen and feast on what is good. It matters because only God's provision truly satisfies the soul.

Cross-references · 34

• John 6:48–58I am the bread of life.
• Jer 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
• Ps 36:8They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
• Rom 10:2–3For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.
• Ps 22:26The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
• Jer 31:14I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.
• Heb 13:9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.
• Isa 51:7Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.
• Mark 7:14Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand:
• Hab 2:13Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
• Matt 22:4Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
• Hos 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
• Ps 63:5My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
• Isa 51:1“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.
• Matt 15:9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
• Ps 34:11Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
• Isa 1:19If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
• Isa 51:4Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
• Rom 9:31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
• Prov 9:5“Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.
• Isa 46:6They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
• Hos 12:1Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
• Rom 10:17Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
• Luke 15:23Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.
• Deut 11:13So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Prov 8:32Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
• Exod 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
• Isa 25:6On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
• Phil 3:4–7though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
• Eccl 6:2God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a grievous affliction.
• Luke 15:15–16So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
• Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
• Prov 7:23until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.
• Prov 1:33But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”

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