Isaiah 55:8

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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.

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  • Ps 92:5 : 5 For You have made me glad by Your work, O LORD; I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.
  • Ps 40:5 : 5 Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not turn to the proud or to those who follow falsehoods.
  • Ezek 18:29 : 29 Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Are my ways unjust, house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols? I will answer him and care for him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from me.
  • Prov 25:3 : 3 As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Ps 25:10 : 10 All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness to those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
  • 2 Sam 7:19 : 19 And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord GOD. You have also spoken of your servant's house for a long time to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord GOD!
  • Prov 21:8 : 8 The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.
  • Jer 3:1 : 1 If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, should he take her back again? Wouldn't such a land become completely defiled? You have lived as a prostitute with many lovers—yet you want to return to me? declares the LORD.

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  • Isa 55:9-11
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    9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

    10As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there without watering the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, providing seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

    11so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

  • Isa 55:6-7
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    6Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.

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

  • Jer 29:11
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    11For I know the plans I have for you—this is the LORD's declaration—plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

  • Ezek 18:29
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    29Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Are my ways unjust, house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

  • Ps 92:5
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    5For You have made me glad by Your work, O LORD; I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

  • Ezek 18:25
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    25Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear me, O house of Israel: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

  • Hag 1:7
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    7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider carefully your ways.

  • Ps 94:11
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    11The LORD knows the thoughts of man; He knows they are but a breath.

  • Isa 40:27
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    27Why do you say, Jacob, and complain, Israel, 'My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God'?

  • Zech 8:14
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    14For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Just as I planned to bring disaster upon you when your ancestors angered me, says the LORD of Hosts, and I did not relent,

  • Hag 1:5
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    5Now, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider carefully your ways.

  • Jer 10:23
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    23I know, Lord, that a person's way is not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps.

  • Isa 54:9-10
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    9To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn not to be angry with you or rebuke you.

    10Though the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, my steadfast love will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be broken, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

  • Zech 1:4
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    4Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.

  • Isa 8:11
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    11For this is what the Lord said to me with a strong hand, warning me not to follow the way of this people:

  • Ps 131:1
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    1A song of ascents. LORD, my heart is not proud, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with matters too great or too wonderful for me.

  • Prov 16:3
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    3Commit your works to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

  • Ps 33:11
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    11The Lord’s counsel stands forever, the plans of His heart from generation to generation.

  • Jer 25:8
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    8Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Because you have not listened to my words—

  • Ps 139:23
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    23Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

  • Jer 16:17
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    17My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, and their iniquity is not concealed from My eyes.

  • Ezek 33:17
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    17Yet your people say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' But it is their way that is not just.

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    12But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand His plan, that He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

  • Job 17:11
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    11My days have passed, my plans are broken off, and the desires of my heart are gone.

  • Jer 14:10-11
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    10This is what the LORD says about this people: They love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their guilt and punish their sins.

    11Then the LORD said to me, "Do not pray for the well-being of this people."

  • Zech 8:11
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    11But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as I did in the past, declares the LORD of Hosts.

  • Jer 18:11
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    11And now, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each one from his evil way, and reform your ways and deeds.’

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    10I, the LORD, search the heart and test the mind, to give each person according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

  • Isa 59:8
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    8The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their ways. They have made their paths crooked; whoever walks in them does not know peace.

  • Ps 139:17
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    17How precious to me are Your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

  • Jer 5:10
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    10Go up among her rows and destroy them, but do not completely finish them off. Remove her branches, for they do not belong to the Lord.

  • Ps 10:4
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    4In his pride, the wicked man says, 'He will not seek; there is no God in all his thoughts.'

  • Jer 6:19
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    19Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to My words and have rejected My law.

  • Ps 77:19
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    19Your thunder echoed in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

  • Mal 3:6
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    6For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore, you, descendants of Jacob, are not consumed.

  • Isa 10:8
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    8For he says, 'Are not all my princes kings?

  • 1 Sam 2:3
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    3'Do not keep speaking so arrogantly or let proud words come out of your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him deeds are weighed.'

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    6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

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    6Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?

  • Prov 5:21
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    21For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and He examines all his paths.

  • Isa 57:12
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    12I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.

  • Prov 20:24
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    24A person's steps are directed by the Lord; how then can anyone understand their own way?

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    13Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

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    2All day long I have stretched out my hands to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own thoughts.

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    13For behold, He who forms the mountains and creates the wind, who reveals His thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness and treads on the heights of the earth—the LORD God of Hosts is His name.