2Why do you weigh money that is not for bread, and your labor that is not for being satisfied? Hear me to hear, and you shall eat good things, and your soul shall delight itself in fatness

3Bend your ears and come to me. Hear me and your soul shall live, and I shall covenant with you a covenant of eternity, the faithful grace of David

4Behold, I have given you as a witness to the nations, a Ruler and Leader to the peoples

5You shall call the nations that you have not known, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of LORD JEHOVAH your God, and because of The Holy One of Israel who glorified you

6Seek LORD JEHOVAH, and whenever you have found him, call upon him,

7And whenever he comes near, the sinner shall forsake his way, and an evil man his thoughts, and he shall return to me and I shall show love upon him, and to our God, for he is abundant with forgiving

8Because my thoughts are not as your thoughts, and my ways are not as your ways, says LORD JEHOVAH

9Because as Heaven is higher than the Earth, just so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts

10Because as when rain descended and snow from the sky and it does not return there unless it overflows the land and gives birth to it and it makes it sprout and it gives seed to the sower and bread for food

11Thus my word shall be that proceeds from my mouth, and it shall not return to me empty handed, but surely it does the thing that I please and accomplishes that for which I have sent it

12Because in joy you shall go out and in peace you shall go on, and the mountains and the hills shall break out before you in song, and all the trees of the field shall clap hands!

13In place of the thorn the cypress will sprout, and in place of wild thyme the myrtle shall sprout, and it shall be to LORD JEHOVAH for a name and for an eternal sign that does not end