The Free Offer of Mercy
“Ho! Every one who athirsts, come to the waters;And you who have bno 1money come, buy and eat.Come, buy cwine and milkdWithout money and without cost.Lit silverPs 42:1, 2; 63:1; 143:6; Is 41:17; 44:3; John 4:14; 7:37; Rev 21:6Lam 5:4Song 5:1; Joel 3:18Hos 14:4; Matt 10:82 “Why do you 1spend money for what is anot bread,And your wages for what does not satisfy?Listen carefully to Me, and beat what is good,And cdelight yourself in abundance.Lit weigh out silverEccl 6:2; Hos 8:7Ps 22:26; Is 1:19; 62:8, 9Is 25:6; Jer 31:143 “aIncline your ear and come to Me.Listen, that 1you may blive;And I will make can everlasting covenant with you,According to the dfaithful mercies 2shown to David.Lit your soulLit of DavidIs 51:4Lev 18:5; Rom 10:5Is 61:8Acts 13:344 “Behold, I have made ahim a witness to the peoples,A bleader and commander for the peoples.Ps 18:43; Jer 30:9; Hos 3:5Ezek 34:24; 37:24, 25; Dan 9:25; Mic 5:25 “Behold, you will call a anation you do not know,And a nation which knows you not will brun to you,Because of the LORD your God, even the Holy One of Israel;For He has cglorified you.”Is 45:14, 22-24; 49:6, 12, 23Zech 8:22Is 60:9
6 aSeek the LORD while He may be found;bCall upon Him while He is near.Ps 32:6; Is 45:19, 22; 49:8; Amos 5:6Is 58:9; 65:247 aLet the wicked forsake his wayAnd the unrighteous man his bthoughts;And let him creturn to the LORD,And He will have dcompassion on him,And to our God,For He will eabundantly pardon.Is 1:16, 19; 58:6Is 32:7; 59:7Is 31:6; 44:22Is 14:1; 54:8, 10Is 1:18; 40:2; 43:25; 44:228 “For My thoughts are not ayour thoughts,Nor are byour ways My ways,” declares the LORD.Is 65:2; 66:18Is 53:69 “For aas the heavens are higher than the earth,So are My ways higher than your waysAnd My thoughts than your thoughts.Ps 103:1110 “For as the arain and the snow come down from heaven,And do not return there without watering the earthAnd making it bear and sprout,And furnishing bseed to the sower and bread to the eater;Is 30:232 Cor 9:1011 So will My aword be which goes forth from My mouth;It will bnot return to Me empty,Without caccomplishing what I desire,And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.Is 45:23; Matt 24:35Is 44:26; 59:21Is 46:10; 53:1012 “For you will go out with ajoyAnd be led forth with bpeace;The cmountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you,And all the dtrees of the field will clap their hands.Ps 105:43; Is 51:11; 52:9Is 54:10, 13; Jer 29:11Is 44:23; 49:131 Chr 16:3313 “Instead of the athorn bush the bcypress will come up,And instead of the cnettle the myrtle will come up,And 1it will be a 2dmemorial to the LORD,For an everlasting esign which fwill not be cut off.”I.e. the transformation of the desertLit nameIs 7:19Is 60:13Is 5:6; 7:24; 32:13Is 63:12, 14; Jer 33:9Is 19:20Is 56:5