Isaiah 55:3
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.
KJV
Inclinate aurem vestram, et venite ad me ; audite, et vivet anima vestra, et feriam vobiscum pactum sempiternum, misericordias David fideles.
Vulgate
προσέχετε τοῖς ὠσὶν ὑμῶν καὶ ἐπακολουθήσατε ταῖς ὁδοῖς μου· εἰσακούσατέ μου, ⸂⸆⸃ καὶ ζήσεται ἐν ἀγαθοῖς ἡ ψυχὴ ὑμῶν, καὶ διαθήσομαι ὑμῖν διαθήκην αἰώνιον, τὰ ὅσια Δαυεὶδ τὰ πιστά.
LXX
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.
ASV
הַטּ֤וּ אָזְנְ/כֶם֙ וּ/לְכ֣וּ אֵלַ֔/י שִׁמְע֖וּ וּ/תְחִ֣י נַפְשְׁ/כֶ֑ם וְ/אֶכְרְתָ֤ה לָ/כֶם֙ בְּרִ֣ית עוֹלָ֔ם חַֽסְדֵ֥י דָוִ֖ד הַ/נֶּאֱמָנִֽים
Hebrew
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13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
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Acts 13:34 · paraphrase"And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David."Isaiah: sure mercies of David — Paul at Antioch Pisidia
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Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§762The remote preparation for this gathering together of the People of God begins when he calls Abraham and promises that he will become the father of a great people.157 Its immediate preparation begins with Israel's election as the People of God. By this election, Israel is to be the sign of the future gathering of All nations.158 But the prophets accuse Israel of breaking the co…
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. This chapter is a free and universal invitation of the gospel. God offers living water, bread, and wine without money and without price. The everlasting covenant of the sure mercies of David is extended to all peoples. God's thoughts are higher than our thoughts and his ways higher than our ways — the mystery of his grace exc…
Cross-references
- 1Chr 17:13 — I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
- 2Chr 1:8 — And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
- 2Chr 6:42 — O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
- 2Kgs 20:5 — Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day tho
- 2Sam 7:8 — Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
- 2Sam 23:5 — Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to gro
- 2Sam 23:5 — Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to gro
- Acts 3:22 — For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
- Acts 13:34 — And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
- Acts 13:34 — And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
- Amos 5:4 — For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
- Exod 6:4 — And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
- Ezek 16:60 — Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
- Ezek 34:23 — And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
- Ezek 34:25 — And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
- Ezek 37:24 — And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
- Ezek 37:26 — Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore
- Gen 17:7 — And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
- Heb 3:7 — Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
- Heb 8:8 — For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
- Heb 11:6 — But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
- Heb 12:24 — And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
- Heb 13:20 — Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
- Heb 13:20 — Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
- Hos 3:5 — Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
- Isa 48:12 — Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
- Isa 49:1 — Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
- Isa 54:8 — In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
- Isa 54:8 — In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
- Isa 54:10 — For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
- Isa 56:4 — For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
- Isa 59:21 — As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
- Isa 61:8 — For I the LORD 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.
- Isa 61:8 — For I the LORD 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.
- Jer 30:9 — But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
- Jer 30:9 — But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
- Jer 32:40 — And I will make 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.
- Jer 32:40 — And I will make 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.
- Jer 33:20 — Thus saith the LORD; If ye 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;
- Jer 33:26 — Then will I 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 cause their captivity to retu