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

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, 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, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Behold, is it not of LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

And having gone, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

But Israel who pursued a law of righteousness, did not arrive to a law of righteousness.

For I testify to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Although (I having confidence also in flesh) if any other man seems to be confident in the flesh, I more:

Be not carried away by various and foreign doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods by which those who walked were not benefited.

Spend

Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down, yea, they worship.

General references

For he satisfies the longing soul, and he fills the hungry soul with good,

Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice?

Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.

Go ye therefore to the crossings of the ways, and as many as ye may find, call to the wedding festivities.