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Isaiah
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“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. See also: John 7:37-38Revelation 21:6Revelation 22:17Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness. See also: John 6:48-58Psalms 22:26Jeremiah 2:13Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. See also: Jeremiah 32:40Matthew 11:28Proverbs 4:20Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples. See also: Revelation 1:5Isaiah 9:6-7Hebrews 2:10Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.” See also: Isaiah 60:5Zechariah 2:11Isaiah 60:9Seek the LORD while he may be found. Call on him while he is near. See also: Jeremiah 29:12-14Psalms 145:18Isaiah 45:19Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon. See also: Proverbs 28:13James 4:8-10Ezekiel 18:21-23“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says the LORD. See also: Psalms 92:5Psalms 40:5Hosea 14:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. See also: Psalms 103:11Romans 11:31-36Matthew 11:25For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; See also: 2 Corinthians 9:9-11Deuteronomy 32:2Isaiah 30:23so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do. See also: Matthew 24:35Isaiah 46:10Romans 10:17For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands. See also: Galatians 5:22Romans 15:13Isaiah 44:23Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for the LORD, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.” See also: Ephesians 3:20-211 Peter 2:9-10Isaiah 41:19
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 55:1
Ver. 1. Waters, which in that country are very scarce. --- Milk. Sept. "fat." C. ---
In the western Churches, wine and honey were given to the new baptized. C.
vii. 15. S. Jer. --- Christ invites all to come to him. John iv. 14,. and vii. 37. The establishment of the Church is described under the figure of the return from Babylon. C. --- Grace is offered to all. But only those are justified who thirst, and do their best. Mat. v. 6. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 55:3
Ver. 3. David. I will be equally faithful to you. Ps. lxxxviii. 29. Sept. " the holy things of David faithful. " Acts xiii. 34. The resurrection of Christ fully accomplished the promise made to David.
↑ 3Isaiah 55:4
Ver. 4. Him. David, who continually proclaimed the divine mercies, (Ps. xvii. 1.) or rather Christ; though Grotius alone would refer it to Jeremias. C.
↑ 4Isaiah 55:5
Ver. 5. Not with approbation. H. --- The Gentiles are converted.
↑ 5Isaiah 55:6
Ver. 6. Near. He will shortly (C.) turn to the Gentiles. John xii. 35. Acts xiii. 46.
H.
↑ 6Isaiah 55:7
Ver. 7. Way. This is a necessary preliminary to God's service. W.
↑ 7Isaiah 55:8
Ver. 8. My ways. I am not vindictive, but require a sincere conversion. C. --- We cannot serve both God and the world. We must therefore adhere to the former.
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↑ 8Isaiah 55:11
Ver. 11. Sent it. I will assuredly bring you from Babylon; and the rain shall sooner return upwards than I will break my promise.
↑ 11Isaiah 55:12
Ver. 12. Peace, by strangers. C. xlix. 22. --- Hands, for joy. C. --- Ipsa sonant arbusta Deus Deus ille, Menacla. Virg. Ec. v.
↑ 12Isaiah 55:13
Ver. 13. Myrtle-tree. Instead of the wicked, the just shall be seen. Chal. --- Away.
The conversion and sanctity of the Gentiles shall be a trophy to the Lord. M.
↑ 13License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses