Isaiah 55:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 92:5 : 5 O LORD, how great{H8804)} are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep{H8804)}.
Ps 40:5 : 5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful{H8737)} works which thou hast done{H8804)}, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order{H8800)} unto thee: if I would declare{H8686)} and speak{H8762)} of them, they are more{H8804)} than can be numbered{H8763)}.
Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the 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 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and 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 the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Ps 25:10 : 10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
2 Sam 7:19 : 19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
Prov 21:8 : 8 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: 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, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.

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