--- title: "Isaiah 55 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/bible/isaiah/55/ description: "God promises abundance of spiritual graces to the faithful, that shall believe… Isaiah 55 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate." --- # Isaiah 55 Isaiah 55 is chapter 55 of 66 in the Book of Isaiah. Here are all 13 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them. > God promises abundance of spiritual graces to the faithful, that shall believe in Christ out of all nations, and sincerely serve him. > > — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary ## Isaiah 55 (Catholic Public Domain Version) 1. All you who thirst, come to the waters. And you who have no money: hurry, buy and eat. Approach, buy wine and milk, without money and without barter. 2. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and expend your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen very closely to me, and eat what is good, and then your soul will be delighted by a full measure. 3. Incline your ear and draw near to me. Listen, and your soul will live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, by the faithful mercies of David. 4. Behold, I have presented him as a witness to the people, as a commander and instructor to the nations. 5. Behold, you will call to a nation that you did not know. And nations that did not know you will rush to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel. For he has glorified you. 6. Seek the Lord, while he is able to be found. Call upon him, while he is near. 7. Let the impious one abandon his way, and the iniquitous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will take pity on him, and to our God, for he is great in forgiveness. 8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways, says the Lord. 9. For just as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so also are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts. 10. And in the same manner as rain and snow descend from heaven, and no longer return there, but soak the earth, and water it, and cause it to bloom and to provide seed to the sower and bread to the hungry, 11. so also will my word be, which will go forth from my mouth. It will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish whatever I will, and it will prosper in the tasks for which I sent it. 12. For you will go forth rejoicing, and you will be led forward in peace. The mountains and the hills will sing praise before you, and all the trees of the countryside will clap their hands. 13. In place of the shrub, the pine tree will arise, and in place of the nettle, the myrtle tree will grow. And the Lord will be named with an eternal sign, which will not be taken away. ## Isaiah 55 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592) 1. Omnes sitientes, venite ad aquas, et qui non habetis argentum, properate, emite, et comedite: venite, emite absque argento et absque ulla commutatione vinum et lac. 2. Quare appenditis argentum non in panibus, et laborem vestrum non in saturitate? Audite, audientes me, et comedite bonum, et delectabitur in crassitudine anima vestra. 3. Inclinate aurem vestram, et venite ad me; audite, et vivet anima vestra, et feriam vobiscum pactum sempiternum, misericordias David fideles. 4. Ecce testem populis dedi eum, ducem ac præceptorem gentibus. 5. Ecce gentem quam nesciebas vocabis, et gentes quæ te non cognoverunt ad te current, propter Dominum Deum tuum, et Sanctum Israël, quia glorificavit te. 6. Quærite Dominum dum inveniri potest; invocate eum dum prope est. 7. Derelinquat impius viam suam, et vir iniquus cogitationes suas, et revertatur ad Dominum, et miserebitur ejus; et ad Deum nostrum, quoniam multus est ad ignoscendum. 8. Non enim cogitationes meæ cogitationes vestræ, neque viæ vestræ viæ meæ, dicit Dominus. 9. Quia sicut exaltantur cæli a terra, sic exaltatæ sunt viæ meæ a viis vestris, et cogitationes meæ a cogitationibus vestris. 10. Et quomodo descendit imber et nix de cælo, et illuc ultra non revertitur, sed inebriat terram, et infundit eam, et germinare eam facit, et dat semen serenti, et panem comedenti: 11. sic erit verbum meum quod egredietur de ore meo; non revertetur ad me vacuum, sed faciet quæcumque volui, et prosperabitur in his ad quæ misi illud. 12. Quia in lætitia egrediemini, et in pace deducemini; montes et colles cantabunt coram vobis laudem, et omnia ligna regionis plaudent manu. 13. Pro saliunca ascendet abies, et pro urtica crescet myrtus; et erit Dominus nominatus in signum æternum quod non auferetur. ## Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va. - CCC ¶ 694: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM)) - cf. CCC ¶ 2121: "You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM)) - CCC ¶ 762: The Church in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM)) ## The saints - “If you understand it, it is not God.” — St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 117, c. 418 (On this theme: verse 8) ## Read at Mass (US) - Thu, Dec 3, 2026: St. Francis Xavier, Priest — Alleluia, Isaiah 55:6 - Tue, Feb 16, 2027: Tuesday of the First Week of Lent — First Reading, Isaiah 55:10-11 - Sat, Mar 27, 2027: Holy Saturday — the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter — Fifth Reading, Isaiah 55:1-11 - Thu, Dec 2, 2027 (computed): Thursday of the First Week of Advent — Alleluia, Isaiah 55:6 3 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/). Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish. Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).