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 following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
• Prov 4:20My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
• Matt 11:28“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
• John 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
• Acts 13:34“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
• Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
• Isa 61:8“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
• John 5:24–25“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• John 6:37All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
• Ps 78:1A contemplation by Asaph. Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
• Isa 54:8In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
• Ps 89:35–37Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
• Ps 89:28I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.
• Lev 18:5You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
• John 8:47He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”
• Ps 119:112I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH
• Matt 17:5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
• Jer 50:5They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.’
• 2 Sam 7:8–17Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.
• 2 Sam 23:5Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.
• Jer 33:26then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.”
• Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
• Jer 30:9but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
• Jer 33:20–21“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
• Ezek 37:24–25My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
• Matt 13:16“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
• John 6:44–45No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
• John 7:37Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
• Rom 10:5For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”

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