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 mind} misleads him. And he cannot save {himself}, and he cannot say, "Is [this] not an illusion in my right hand?"

"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, [the] source of living water, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.

Because they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. [The] standing grain does not have heads; it will not yield flour. [And] if it would yield, strangers would devour it.

Ephraim herds [the] wind and [is] pursuing [the] east wind all day long; he multiplies deception and violence and he {makes a treaty with Assyria}, and oil is brought to Egypt.

Look! [Is it] not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?

and they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'"

And he went [and] hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, did not attain to the law.

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

although I [could] have confidence even in the flesh.

Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.

Spend

Those who lavish gold from [the] purse and weigh out silver in the balance scales; hire {a goldsmith} and he makes him a god; they bow down, indeed they bow in worship.

General references

for he satisfies [the] longing soul, and [the] hungry soul he fills with good.

Does not wisdom call, and understanding raise its voice?

"Come, eat with my bread; drink with the wine I have mixed.

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

Therefore, go out to the [places where] the roads exit the city and invite to the wedding celebration as many [people] as you find.'