Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
New American Standard Bible
Listen, that
And I will make
According to the
King James Version
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Holman Bible
listen, so that you will live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
the promises assured to David.
International Standard Version
Pay attention to me, come to me; and listen, so that you may live; then I'll make an everlasting covenant with you, as promised by my faithful, sure love for David.
A Conservative Version
Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the {faithful holy things (LXX/NT)} of David.
American Standard Version
Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Amplified
“Incline your ear [to listen] and come to Me;
Hear, so that your soul may live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
According to the faithful mercies [promised and] shown to David.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
Darby Translation
Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
Julia Smith Translation
Incline your ear, and come to me, and hear, and your soul shall live; and I will cut out with you an eternal covenant, the sure mercies of David.
King James 2000
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Extend your ear, and come to me! Listen so that your soul may live, and I will {make} an everlasting covenant with you, the enduring proofs of {the mercies shown to} David.
Modern King James verseion
Bow down your ear, and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Incline your ears, and come unto me, take heed, and your soul shall live. For I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
New Heart English Bible
Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
The Emphasized Bible
Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hearken, That your soul, may live, - That I may solemnise for you a covenant age-abiding, The Lovingkindness to David, well-assured.
Webster
Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
World English Bible
Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Youngs Literal Translation
Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.
Themes
Access to God » Promises connected with
Covenant » Who the lord keeps covenant with
Covenant » Instances of » With his people
Glory » Who the lord glorifies
Life » Of the spirit spiritual » Sustained by the word of God
Life » Spiritual » Sustained by the word of God
Spiritual life » The word of God is the instrument of
Living waters » Jesus Christ leading people to living fountains of water
God's Mercy » Described as » Sure
Topics
Interlinear
Natah
'ozen
Shama`
Nephesh
`owlam
References
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 55:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Invitation To True Rewards
2 Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food! 3 Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David. 4 Look, I made him a witness to nations, a ruler and commander of nations."
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 61:8
For I, the Lord, love justice and hate robbery and sin. I will repay them because of my faithfulness; I will make a permanent covenant with them.
Acts 13:34
But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: 'I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.'
Isaiah 54:8
In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you," says your protector, the Lord.
Psalm 78:1
A well-written song by Asaph. Pay attention, my people, to my instruction! Listen to the words I speak!
Jeremiah 32:40
I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me.
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 17:5
While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my one dear Son, in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!"
Genesis 17:7
I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Leviticus 18:5
So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.
2 Samuel 7:8-17
"So now, say this to my servant David: 'This is what the Lord of hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd to make you leader of my people Israel.
2 Samuel 23:5
My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.
Psalm 89:28
I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure.
Psalm 89:35-37
Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness, I will never deceive David.
Psalm 119:112
I am determined to obey your statutes at all times, to the very end.
Proverbs 4:20
My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.
Jeremiah 30:9
But they will be subject to the Lord their God and to the Davidic ruler whom I will raise up as king over them.
Jeremiah 33:20-21
"I, Lord, make the following promise: 'I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant
Jeremiah 33:26
Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David's descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed, I will restore them and show mercy to them."
Jeremiah 50:5
They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
Ezekiel 37:24-25
"'My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow my regulations and carefully observe my statutes.
Matthew 13:16
"But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.
John 5:24-25
"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.
John 6:37
Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.
John 6:44-45
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 7:37
On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and
John 8:47
The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God's words. You don't listen and respond, because you don't belong to God."
John 10:27
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Romans 10:5
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: "The one who does these things will live by them."
Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ,