Isaiah 55:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Ps 92:5 : 5 O Lord, how glorious are thy workes! and thy thoughtes are very deepe.
  • Ps 40:5 : 5 O Lorde my God, thou hast made thy wonderfull workes so many, that none can count in order to thee thy thoughts toward vs: I would declare, and speake of them, but they are moe then I am able to expresse.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 (14:10) Who is wise, and he shall vnderstande these things? and prudent, and he shall knowe them? for the wayes of the Lorde are righteous, and the iust shall walke in them: but the wicked shal fall therein.
  • Ezek 18:29 : 29 Yet saith ye house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equall. O house of Israel, are not my wayes equall? or are not your wayes vnequall?
  • Prov 25:3 : 3 The heaues in height, & the earth in deepenes, and the Kings heart can no man search out.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheepe haue gone astraye: wee haue turned euery one to his owne way, and the Lord hath layed vpon him the iniquitie of vs all.
  • Ps 25:10 : 10 All the pathes of the Lorde are mercie and trueth vnto such as keepe his couenant and his testimonies.
  • 2 Sam 7:19 : 19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God, therefore thou hast spoken also of thy seruants house for a great while: but doth this apperteine to man, O Lord God?
  • Prov 21:8 : 8 The way of some is peruerted and strange: but of the pure man, his worke is right.
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 (4:34) Now therefore I Nebuchad-nezzar prayse and extoll & magnifie the King of heauen, whose workes are all trueth, & his wayes iudgement, and those that walke in pride, he is able to abase.
  • Jer 3:1 : 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she goe from him, and become another mans, shall hee returne againe vnto her? Shall not this land be polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many louers: yet turne againe to mee, sayeth the Lord.

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    9For as ye heauens are higher then the earth, so are my wayes higher then your wayes, and my thoughtes aboue your thoughts.

    10Surely as the raine commeth downe and the snow from heauen, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth and maketh it to bring forth and bud, that it may giue seede to the sower, and bread vnto him that eateth,

    11So shall my worde be, that goeth out of my mouth: it shall not returne vnto me voyde, but it shall accomplish that which I will, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

  • Isa 55:6-7
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    6Seeke ye the Lord while he may be found: call ye vpon him while he is neere.

    7Let the wicked forsake his wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations, and returne vnto the Lord, and he wil haue mercy vpon him: and to our God, for hee is very ready to forgiue.

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    11For I knowe the thoughtes, that I haue thought towards you, saith the Lorde, euen the thoughtes of peace, and not of trouble, to giue you an ende, and your hope.

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    29Yet saith ye house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equall. O house of Israel, are not my wayes equall? or are not your wayes vnequall?

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    5O Lord, how glorious are thy workes! and thy thoughtes are very deepe.

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    25Yet ye say, The way of the Lorde is not equall: heare now, O house of Israel. Is not my way equall? or are not your wayes vnequall?

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    11The Lord knoweth the thoughtes of man, that they are vanitie.

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    27Why sayest thou, O Iaakob, and speakest O Israel, My way is hid from the Lorde, and my iudgement is passed ouer of my God?

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    14For thus sayth the Lorde of hostes, As I thought to punish you, when your fathers prouoked me vnto wrath, sayth the Lord of hostes, and repented not,

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    5Now therefore thus saith ye Lord of hostes, Consider your owne wayes in your hearts.

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    23O Lord, I knowe, that the way of man is not in himselfe, neyther is it in man to walke and to direct his steps.

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    23Try mee, O God, and knowe mine heart: prooue me and know my thoughtes,

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    17For mine eyes are vpon al their wayes: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquitie hid from mine eyes.

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