Isaiah  Jacob

Isaiah chapter 55 and the epistle of Jacob.

^1.1Come, everyone who thirsts, ^1.2come to the waters. ^1.3He who has no silver, ^1.4come buy and eat. ^1.5Yes, come buy wine and milk ^1.6without silver and without price. ^2.1Why do you spend silver for what is not bread ^2.2and your labor for what does not satisfy? ^2.3Listen diligently to me and you will eat what is good ^2.4and your soul will be delighted in delicacies. ^3.1Incline your ear and come to me, ^3.2listen to me and your soul will live, ^3.3and I will make an everlasting contract with you, ^3.4even the sure mercies of David. S Amos 9:11 Q Acts 13:34 Isaiah 55:1-3 ^4.1I have given you for a witness to the peoples, ^4.2a ruler and leader to the peoples, ^5.1for you will call peoples that you do not know, ^5.2and peoples that did not know you will run to you ^5.3because of the Master your God, ^5.4and because of the holy one of Israel, ^5.5for he has glorified you. Isaiah 55:4-5^6.1Seek the Master, and when you find him ^6.2call on him while he is near. ^7.1Let the sinner forsake his way ^7.2and the wicked man his thoughts, ^7.3and let him return to the Master and he will have mercy on him, ^7.4and to our God for he will abundantly pardon. Isaiah 55:6-7^8.1For my thoughts are not like your thoughts ^8.2and my ways are not like your ways, says the Master. ^9.1For as the skies are higher than the land ^9.2so are my ways higher than your ways ^9.3and my thoughts than your thoughts. ^10.1For as the rain and the snow ^10.2come down from the skies ^10.3and do not return there, ^10.4but water the land ^10.5and make it bring forth and sprout ^10.6and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, Q 2 Corinthians 9:10 ^11.1so will my word be that proceeds from my mouth ^11.2and will not return to me empty, ^11.3yet surely will do what I please ^11.4and will accomplish that for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:8-11^12.1For you will go out with joy ^12.2and be led forth with peace, ^12.3the mountains and the hills ^12.4will break forth before you into singing, ^12.5and all the trees of the field ^12.6will clap their hands. ^13.1Instead of the thorn ^13.2will come up the fir tree ^13.3and instead of the brier ^13.4will come up the myrtle, ^13.5and it will be to the Master ^13.6for a name, ^13.7for an everlasting sign ^13.8that will not be cut off. Isaiah 55:12-13

(Isaiah 55 BRB)

Isaiah asks why money is spent for what is not bread. This matches going to a city to prosper.

7: Tribe of Simeon¹³What then will we say of those who say, Today or tomorrow we will go to a city and will work there 1 year and will trade and prosper? ¹⁴They do not know what will happen tomorrow, for what is our life, it is but a vapor which appears for a little while, and then vanishes away. P Psalms 144:4 ¹⁵Instead of that they should say, If the Master wills, we will live and do this or that, ¹⁶but now they are proud in their boasting. All such pride is evil. ¹⁷Therefore, he who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. Jacob 4:13-17

(Jacob 4:13-17 BRB)

Isaiah asks why labor for what does not satisfy. This matches the laborers not being paid.

8: Tribe of Levi¹Oh rich, wail and weep for the miseries which will come on you. ²Your riches are destroyed and rotted and your clothing is moth-eaten. ³Your gold and silver are tarnished and the tarnish of them will be a testimony against you and it will eat your flesh. Fire you have gathered to yourselves for the latter days. Jacob 5:1-39: Tribe of Issachar⁴The wage of the laborers who have reaped your fields, what you have fraudulently kept back, cries, and the cry of the reapers has entered into the ears of the Master of Hosts, ⁵for you have had your luxuries on land and have been greedy. You have fed your bodies as for the day of slaughter. ⁶You have condemned and killed the righteous and he has not risen against you. A 1 Kings 21:13 Jacob 5:4-6

(Jacob 5:1-6 BRB)

Isaiah says the rain waters the land. This matches waiting for the latter rain to water the crop.

10: Tribe of Zebulun⁷My brothers, have patience of spirit until the coming of the Master as the farmer waits for the precious crop of his field and is patient of spirit for it until he receives the early and the late rain. ⁸Thus you also be patient of spirit and set firmly your hearts for the coming of our master draws near. Jacob 5:7-8

(Jacob 5:7-8 BRB)

Isaiah says Yahvah's word will go forth. This matches prophets who spoke in the name of master.

⁹Do not complain 1 against another, my brothers, lest you be judged, for the judge stands before the door. Jacob 5:911: Tribe of Joseph¹⁰My brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Master for an example of patience of spirit in your affliction. ¹¹We count them happy who endure. You have heard of the endurance of Job and you have seen what the Master did for him at the end, H Job 42:10 for the Master is merciful and compassionate, Jacob 5:10-12

(Jacob 5:9-11 BRB)

Ryan Eaton 2008-09-14 2013-07-09