Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Bow down your ear, and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
New American Standard Bible
Listen, that
And I will make
According to the
King James Version
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Holman Bible
listen, so that you will live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
the promises assured to David.
International Standard Version
Pay attention to me, come to me; and listen, so that you may live; then I'll make an everlasting covenant with you, as promised by my faithful, sure love for David.
A Conservative Version
Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the {faithful holy things (LXX/NT)} of David.
American Standard Version
Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Amplified
“Incline your ear [to listen] and come to Me;
Hear, so that your soul may live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
According to the faithful mercies [promised and] shown to David.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
Darby Translation
Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
Julia Smith Translation
Incline your ear, and come to me, and hear, and your soul shall live; and I will cut out with you an eternal covenant, the sure mercies of David.
King James 2000
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Extend your ear, and come to me! Listen so that your soul may live, and I will {make} an everlasting covenant with you, the enduring proofs of {the mercies shown to} David.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Incline your ears, and come unto me, take heed, and your soul shall live. For I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
NET Bible
Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
New Heart English Bible
Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
The Emphasized Bible
Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hearken, That your soul, may live, - That I may solemnise for you a covenant age-abiding, The Lovingkindness to David, well-assured.
Webster
Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
World English Bible
Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Youngs Literal Translation
Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.
Themes
Access to God » Promises connected with
Covenant » Who the lord keeps covenant with
Covenant » Instances of » With his people
Glory » Who the lord glorifies
Life » Of the spirit spiritual » Sustained by the word of God
Life » Spiritual » Sustained by the word of God
Spiritual life » The word of God is the instrument of
Living waters » Jesus Christ leading people to living fountains of water
God's Mercy » Described as » Sure
Topics
Interlinear
Natah
'ozen
Shama`
Nephesh
`owlam
References
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 55:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Invitation To True Rewards
2 Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 3 Bow down your ear, and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 4 Behold, I have given Him for a witness to the people, a Leader and Commander of peoples.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 61:8
For I Jehovah love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Acts 13:34
And that He raised Him up from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He spoke in this way: "I will give you the holy promises of David."
Isaiah 54:8
In a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you, says Jehovah your Redeemer.
Psalm 78:1
An instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; bow down your ears to the words of my mouth.
Jeremiah 32:40
And I will cut an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good. But I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from Me.
Matthew 11:28
Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 17:5
While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And behold a voice out of the cloud which said, This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear Him.
Genesis 17:7
And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
Leviticus 18:5
And you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Jehovah.
2 Samuel 7:8-17
And now so shall you say to My servant David, So says Jehovah of Hosts: I took you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel.
2 Samuel 23:5
Although my house is not so with God, yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure. For all my salvation, and all my desire, will He not make it grow?
Psalm 89:28
I will keep My mercy for him forever, and My covenant shall stand fast with him.
Psalm 89:35-37
Once I have sworn by My holiness that I will not lie to David.
Psalm 119:112
I have bowed down my heart to do Your Precepts always to the end.
Proverbs 4:20
My son, listen to my words; bow down your ear to my sayings.
Jeremiah 30:9
but they shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
Jeremiah 33:20-21
So says Jehovah: If you can break My covenant of the day and My covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season,
Jeremiah 33:26
then I will cast away the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will bring back their captivity, and have mercy on them.
Jeremiah 50:5
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces there, saying, Come and let us join ourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant never to be forgotten.
Ezekiel 37:24-25
And David My servant shall be King over them. And there shall be one Shepherd to all of them. And they shall walk in My judgments, and obey My Laws, and do them.
Matthew 13:16
But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
John 5:24-25
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears My Word and believes on Him who sent Me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death to life.
John 6:37
All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will in no way cast out.
John 6:44-45
No one can come to Me unless the Father who has sent Me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 7:37
And in the last day of the great feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
John 8:47
He who is of God hears God's Words. Therefore you do not hear them because you are not of God.
John 10:27
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
Romans 10:5
For Moses writes of the righteousness which is of the Law, "The man who does those things shall live by them."
Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace (who brought again our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant)