Isaiah 55:8 ““For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,…”

Isaiah 55:8

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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 the LORD.

American Standard Version

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

For my thoughtes are not your thoughts, neither are your wayes my wayes, sayth the Lord.

Darby Translation

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

For not My thoughts [are] your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, — an affirmation of Jehovah,

Bible in Basic English

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

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Cross references

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.”

Psalm 92:5 Psalm 40:5 Hosea 14:9 Psalm 25:10 Ezekiel 18:29 Daniel 4:37

Psalm 92:5 · BSB

How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!

Psalm 40:5 · BSB

Many, 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.

Hosea 14:9 · BSB

Whoever 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.

Psalm 25:10 · BSB

All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

Ezekiel 18:29 · BSB

Yet 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 4:37 · BSB

Now 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.

Also

Isaiah 53:6

Isaiah 53:6 · BSB

We 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

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