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 spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Ps 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
• Rom 10:2–3For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
• Ps 22:26The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
• Jer 31:14I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.
• Heb 13:9Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
• Isa 51:7“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law: Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
• Mark 7:14He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
• Hab 2:13Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
• Matt 22:4Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!”’
• Hos 8:7For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
• Ps 63:5My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
• Isa 51:1“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
• Matt 15:9And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”
• Ps 34:11Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
• Isa 1:19If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
• Isa 51:4“Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation: for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.
• Rom 9:31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
• Prov 9:5“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
• Isa 46:6Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down — yes, they worship.
• Hos 12:1Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
• Rom 10:17So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
• Luke 15:23Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;
• Deut 11:13It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Prov 8:32“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
• Exod 15:26and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
• Isa 25:6In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
• Phil 3:4–7though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
• Eccl 6:2a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
• Luke 15:15–16He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
• Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
• Prov 7:23Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
• Prov 1:33But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

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