Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 55:3
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Isaiah55:3
3. me ... live--by coming to me ye shall live: for "I am the life" (Joh 14:6).
everlasting covenant--(Jr 32:40; 2Sa 23:5).
with you ... David--God's covenant is with the antitypical David, Messiah (Eze 34:23), and so with us by our identification with Him.
sure--answering to "everlasting," irrevocable, unfailing, to be relied on (Psa 89:2-4, 28, 29, 34-36; Jr 33:20, 21; 2Sa 7:15, 16; 2Co 1:18-20).
mercies of David--the mercies of grace (Is 63:7; Joh 1:16) which I covenanted to give to David, and especially to Messiah, his antitype. Quoted in Ac 13:34.
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