“… the welcome to eat and drink rich foods, wine, and milk, can be seen as an inclusio with paradise imagery at the end of the pericope. God’s salvation brings fullness and plenty. But if one reads more widely in the Deutero-Isaiah tradition and in the Israelite tradition as a whole, 55:12 can be perceived to invoke the banquet motif of the victory-enthronement pattern. A similar invitation to eat and drink is offered by Woman Wisdom in Proverbs 9:5. A figure closely associated with creation in Proverbs 8, God’s “master-builder,” a virtual divine consort, Woman Wisdom existed before there were depths, before mountains were dug out. She builds her house (9:1) and prepares a feast in another biblical example of the victory-enthronement pattern. …”