Isaiah 55:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.”
‘My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the LORD—God’s wisdom is higher than ours.
Read the full meaning““For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For not My thoughts <FI>are<Fi> your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, --an affirmation of Jehovah,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 55:8 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 16:7But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”
- 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?
- 2 Kings 5:11But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out, stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the spot to cure my leprosy.
- Job 35:5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
- 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.
- Isaiah 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
- 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.
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