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    I don’t understand why you spend your money for things that don’t nourish
        or work so hard for what leaves you empty.
    Attend to Me and eat what is good;
        enjoy the richest, most delectable of things.
    Listen closely, and come even closer. My words will give life,
        for I will make a covenant with you that cannot be broken, a promise
    Of My enduring presence and support like I gave to David.[a]
    See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander among the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. 55:3 Acts 13:34

Why spend money on what is not bread,
    and your labor on what does not satisfy?(A)
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,(B)
    and you will delight in the richest(C) of fare.
Give ear and come to me;
    listen,(D) that you may live.(E)
I will make an everlasting covenant(F) with you,
    my faithful love(G) promised to David.(H)
See, I have made him a witness(I) to the peoples,
    a ruler and commander(J) of the peoples.

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