Isaiah 55

¹“All you people who are in exile,

²What you really need is to have a close relationship with me,

³Listen to me and come to me;

⁴By what he did, I showed my power to many people-groups;

⁵And similarly, you will summon people of other nations to come to you,

⁶Seek to know me while it is still possible for you to do that;

⁷Wicked people should abandon their wicked behavior,

⁸I, Yahweh, declare that what I think is not the same as what you think,

⁹Just as the sky is far above the earth,

¹⁰Rain and snow come down from the sky,

¹¹And similarly the things that I promise to do, I will always cause to happen;

¹²You will leave Babylon joyfully,

¹³Instead of thornbushes and briers,