KJV King James Version
For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
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Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
WEB World English Bible
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh.
ASV American Standard Version
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For not My thoughts are your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways,—an affirmation of Jehovah,
Surrounding context — Isaiah 55
5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation [that] thou knowest not, and nations [that] knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it.
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Psalm 92:5O LORD, how great are thy works! [and] thy thoughts are very deep.Psalm 40:5Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered.Hosea 14:9Who [is] wise, and he shall understand these [things]? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.Ezekiel 18:29Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?Psalm 25:10All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.Daniel 4:37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works [are] truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.Isaiah 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.Proverbs 21:8The way of man [is] froward and strange: but [as for] the pure, his work [is] right.Proverbs 25:3The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings [is] unsearchable.2 Samuel 7:19And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And [is] this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?Jeremiah 3:1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
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