◄ Isaiah 55:8 ►
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Good News Translation
"My thoughts," says the LORD, "are not like yours, and my ways are different from yours.

New Revised Standard Version
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD says: "My thoughts and my ways are not like yours.

New American Bible
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways—oracle of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

2 Samuel 7:19 Bur yet this hath seemed little in thy sight, O Lord God, unless thou didst also speak of the house of thy servant for a long time to come: for this is the law of Adam, O Lord God:

Psalm 25:10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.

Psalm 40:5 Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.

Psalm 92:5 O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.

Proverbs 21:8 The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.

Proverbs 25:3 The heaven above and the earth beneath, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Jeremiah 3:1 It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee.

Ezekiel 18:29 And the children of Israel say: The way of the Lord is not right. Are not my ways right, O house of Israel, and are not rather your ways perverse?

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Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

Context
Invitation to the Needy
…7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive. 8For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.9For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:19
Bur yet this hath seemed little in thy sight, O Lord God, unless thou didst also speak of the house of thy servant for a long time to come: for this is the law of Adam, O Lord God:

Psalm 33:11
But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Psalm 40:5
Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.

Isaiah 14:24
The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed,

Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 58:13
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found, to speak a word:

Isaiah 65:2
I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.

Isaiah 66:18
But I know their works, and their thoughts: I come that I may gather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come and shall see my glory.

Isaiah 55:7
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