Isaiah 1:19
If you really want this, and if you do as you're told, then you yourselves will eat the best things that the land produces.
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In The King James Version
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 25:19Then the land will produce good harvests, so you will have plenty to eat and live in safety there.
Leviticus 26:5Your time of threshing will last right up to the grape harvest, and the grape harvest until the time you have to sow again. You will have more than enough to eat and you will live in safety in your land.
Isaiah 3:10Tell those who live right that they will be fine, for they will be happy to receive the reward for what they have done.
Isaiah 55:2Why are you spending money on what isn't food, and why work for something that doesn't satisfy you? Listen carefully to me: eat what is good, and you'll enjoy the very best food.
Isaiah 58:14then you'll find the Lord is the one who truly makes you happy, and I will give you high positions on the earth and give you what I promised to Jacob, your forefather. I, the Lord, have spoken.
Jeremiah 7:3This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says: Change your ways and do what's right, and I'll let you go on living here.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:17-21
A Call to Repentance; Repentance and Reformation Urged. ( b. c. 738.) 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the… Read the whole commentary →