1 Everyone who is willing to learn, let him come and learn; and he who has no silver, come, hear and learn; come, hear and learn,⁠a without price and without money, teaching that is better than wine and milk. 2 Why do you weigh out your silver for what is not food, and your wealth for what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to my Memra, and you will eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance. 3 Incline your ear and receive the instruction of my Torah; obey my Memra, and your soul will live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David. 4 I have appointed him a prince, a king, and a ruler over all the kingdoms. 5 A people whom you do not know will serve you, and a people who have not known you will run to offer tribute to you, because of the LORD your God and for the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified you. 6 Seek the fear of the LORD while you are alive; make supplication before His presence while you remain. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way of wickedness, and the man of violence his thoughts, and let him return to the worship of the LORD, and He will have mercy on him; and let him return to the fear of our God, for He will abundantly pardon. 8 For your thoughts are not as my thoughts, and your ways are not right, like the ways of my goodness, says the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways better than your ways, and my thoughts better than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not return there, but waters the earth and makes it sprout and be fruitful, that it may give abundant grain of seed to the sower and food enough for the eater, 11 so will be the word of my kindness that proceeds from my presence; it will not return to my presence void, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in the thing for which I sent it. 12 For you will go out with joy from among the nations, and with peace you will be led to your land; the mountains and the hills will rejoice before you with praise, and all the trees of the field will clap with their branches. 13 Instead of the wicked the righteous will rise up, and instead of sinners those who fear sin will rise up; and it will be before the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that will not cease.