Isaiah 55:3

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“Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.”

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BSBPD

“Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 55:3 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
  2. Genesis 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
  3. Exodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
  4. Leviticus 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
  5. 2 Samuel 7:8Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.
  6. 2 Samuel 7:29Now therefore, may it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with Your blessing the house of Your servant will be blessed forever.”
  7. 2 Samuel 23:5Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
  8. 2 Chronicles 6:42O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”
  9. Psalms 78:1Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
  10. Psalms 89:28I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
  11. Psalms 89:29I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
  12. Psalms 89:35Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—
  13. Psalms 119:112I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.
  14. Proverbs 4:20My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
  15. Proverbs 7:2Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
  16. Isaiah 54:8In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
  17. Isaiah 61:8For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
  18. Jeremiah 30:9Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
  19. Jeremiah 32:40I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
  20. Jeremiah 33:20“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
  21. Jeremiah 33:26then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”
  22. Jeremiah 38:20“They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.
  23. Jeremiah 50:5They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
  24. Ezekiel 16:60But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

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