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Yeshayahu 55

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Module 8: The Invitation to the Living Waters and the Everlasting Dawidic Covenant

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

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Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

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The Everlasting Covenant of Dawid

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 (Chesed) of Dawid.

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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, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Elohim, and for the Holy One of Yashar'el; for he hath glorified thee.

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The Command to Return and Seek 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄

Seek ye 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

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Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our Elohim, for he will abundantly pardon.

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The Transcendence of the Divine Thought

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.

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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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The Efficacy of the Sent Word

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

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So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

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The Joyful Departure and Environmental Reset

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

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Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.