🕊️WEB · Isaiah 55:6

What does Isaiah 55:6 mean?

"Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near."

— Isaiah 55:6 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

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Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

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Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.”

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Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

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Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

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“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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