Isaiah 55:3

God calls people to come and listen so their souls may live, promising an everlasting covenant of the sure mercies of David. It matters because it links salvation to God's faithful covenant promises fulfilled in Christ.

Cross-references · 29

• Jer 32:40And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
• Prov 4:20My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
• Matt 11:28Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
• John 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
• Acts 13:34And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
• Gen 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
• Isa 61:8For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
• John 5:24–25Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
• John 6:37All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
• Ps 78:1Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
• Isa 54:8In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
• Ps 89:35–37Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
• Ps 89:28My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
• Lev 18:5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
• John 8:47He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
• Ps 119:112I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
• Matt 17:5While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
• Jer 50:5They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
• 2 Sam 7:8–17Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
• 2 Sam 23:5Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
• Jer 33:26Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
• Heb 13:20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
• Jer 30:9But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
• Jer 33:20–21Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
• Ezek 37:24–25And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
• Matt 13:16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
• John 6:44–45No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
• John 7:37In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
• Rom 10:5For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

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