Isaiah 55:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי לֹא מַחְשְׁבוֹתַי מַחְשְׁבוֹתֵיכֶם וְלֹא דַרְכֵיכֶם דְּרָכָי נְאֻם יְהוָה

Transliteration

Because not maḥšĕḇôṯay maḥšĕḇôṯêḵem and-not ḏarḵêḵem dĕrāḵāy nĕʾum YHWH

Grammar Details

*maḥšĕḇôṯay*: noun, feminine plural construct with 1st person common singular suffix - my thoughts
*maḥšĕḇôṯêḵem*: noun, feminine plural construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your thoughts
*ḏarḵêḵem*: noun, feminine plural construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your ways
*dĕrāḵāy*: noun, feminine plural construct with 1st person common singular suffix - my ways
*nĕʾum*: noun, masculine singular construct - declaration of
*YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh/the LORD

Word Meanings

*maḥšĕḇôṯay*: my thoughts/plans/intentions
*maḥšĕḇôṯêḵem*: your thoughts/plans/intentions
*ḏarḵêḵem*: your ways/paths/courses
*dĕrāḵāy*: my ways/paths/courses
*nĕʾum*: declaration of/oracle of/utterance of

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Referenced Verses

Ps 92:5 : 5 How great are thy works, O Jehovah! Thy thoughts are very deep.
Ps 40:5 : 5 Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are to us-ward; They cannot be set in order unto thee; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.
Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.
Ezek 18:29 : 29 Yet 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?
Prov 25:3 : 3 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, So the heart of kings is unsearchable.
Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Ps 25:10 : 10 All the paths of Jehovah are lovingkindness and truth Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
2 Sam 7:19 : 19 And this was yet a small thing in thine eyes, O Lord Jehovah; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, O Lord Jehovah!
Prov 21:8 : 8 The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.
Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Jer 3:1 : 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.

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