Come, all who are thirsty.

Isaiah 55 - 56:8 (NIV)

"'Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters; 

and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat! 

Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost. 

Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy? 

Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare. 

Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live. 

I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David. 

See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a ruler and commander of the peoples.
Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.' 

Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near. 

Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon. 

'For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,'  declares the LORD. 

'As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts. 

As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 

so is my word that goes out from my mouth;
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. 

You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands. 

Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be fore the LORD's renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.' 

'Maintain justice
and do what is right,
for my salvation is close at hand
and my righteousness will soon be revealed. 

Blessed is the one who does this--
the person who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,
and keeps their hands from doing any evil.' 

Let no foreigner who is bound to the LORD say,
'The LORD will surely exclude me from his people.' 

And let no eunuch complain,
'I am only a dry tree.' 

For this is what the LORD says: 

'To the eunuch who keep my Sabbaths,
who choose what pleases me
and hold fast to my covenant--
to them I will give within my temple and its walls
a memorial and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that will endure forever. 

And foreigners who bind themselves to the LORD
to minister to him,
to love the name of the LORD,
and to be his servants, 

all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold fast to my covenant-- 

these I will bring to my holy mountain
and give them joy in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for my house will be called
a house of prayer for all nations.' 

The Sovereign LORD declares--
he who gathers the exiles of Israel: 

'I will gather still others to them
besides those already gathered.'"