Isaiah 55

Chap. LV. Ver. 1—13. Invitation to partake freely of divine blessings.—This comfortable chapter first displays the fulness, freeness, excellence, and everlasting nature of the blessings of the gospel; and remonstrates with men, against the sparing the use of their talents and their energies in the pursuit of objects, which can neither afford them satisfaction in present enjoyment nor yield the hope of happiness in a future world. But as the great things promised, both here and in the preceding chapters, might seem almost incredible, the Prophet adverts to the divine omnipotence, as abundantly able to accomplish all his promises. This he illustrates in allusion to the rain and snow which fructify the earth: so shall the word of God, and the way of the gospel, under the gracious influence of God’s Holy Spirit, bring forth the fruits of joy, and righteousness and peace, in all the world.