Isaiah 55:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Do ye

Spend

Isaiah 46:6

General references

Matthew 22:9

Bible References

Do ye

feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

“For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me,
The fountain of living waters,
To hew for themselves cisterns,
Broken cisterns
That can hold no water.

For they sow the wind
And they reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
It yields no grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

Ephraim feeds on wind,

And pursues the east wind continually;
He multiplies lies and violence.
Moreover, he makes a covenant with Assyria,
And oil is carried to Egypt.

“Is it not indeed from the Lord of hosts
That peoples toil for fire,
And nations grow weary for nothing?

‘But in vain do they worship Me,
Teaching as

doctrines the precepts of men

.’”

So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.

although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more:

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

Spend

“Those who lavish gold from the purse
And weigh silver on the scale
Hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
They bow down, indeed they worship it.

General references

For He has satisfied the thirsty soul,
And the hungry soul He has filled with what is good.

Does not wisdom call,
And understanding lift up her voice?

“Come, eat of my food
And drink of the wine I have mixed.

“If you consent and obey,
You will eat the best of the land;

Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, invite to the wedding feast.’