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Isaiah 55:8
Isaiah 55:8 is verse 8 of Isaiah chapter 55, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
King James Version
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
World English Bible
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
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Isaiah 55:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
7 Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Samuel 7:19And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant. Is this Your custom with man, O Lord GOD?
Psalms 25:10All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
Psalms 40:5Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.
Psalms 92:5How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
Proverbs 21:8The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
Proverbs 25:3As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings cannot be searched.
Jeremiah 3:1“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers— and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
Ezekiel 18:29Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
Hosea 14:9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.