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

The keeping of dust, and foolishness of heart hath turned them aside: so that none of them can have a free conscience to think, "Do not I err?"

For my people hath done two evils: They have forsaken me, the well of the water of life; and digged them pits, yea, vile and broken pits, that hold no water.

They have sown wind, therefore shall they reap a whirlwind. Their seed shall bear no corn, there shall no meal be made of their increase: though they reap, yet shall strangers devour it up.

Ephraim keepeth the air, and followeth after the east wind: he is ever increasing lies and destruction. They be confederate with the Assyrians, their oil is carried into Egypt.

Shall not the LORD of Hosts bring this to pass, that the laborers of the people shall be burnt with a great fire, and that the thing whereupon the people have wearied themselves, shall be lost?

But in vain they worship me, teaching doctrines which are nothing but men's precepts.'"

And he went, and clave to a citizen of that same country, which sent him to his field, to keep his swine.

But Israel, which followed the law of righteousness, could not attain unto the law of righteousness.

For I bear them record, that they have a fervent mind to Godward, but not according to knowledge.

though I have whereof I might rejoice in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, much more I:

Be not carried about with divers and strange learning. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, and not with meats, which have not profited them that have had their pastime in them.

Spend

Ye fools, no doubt, will take out silver and gold out of your purses, and weigh it, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, that men may kneel down and worship it.

General references

For he satisfieth the greedy soul, and filleth the hungry soul with good.

Doth not wisdom cry? Doth not understanding put forth her voice?

"O come on your way, eat my bread, and drink my wine, which I have poured out for you.

If ye will agree and hearken, ye shall eat the best of the land, saith the LORD God.

Go ye therefore out into the highways, and as many as ye find, bid them to the marriage.'