Isaiah 55:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 92:5 : 5 O LORD, how great are your works! And your thoughts are very deep.
  • Ps 40:5 : 5 Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be counted in order to You: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
  • 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 says 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 heavens 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 has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Ps 25:10 : 10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.
  • 2 Sam 7:19 : 19 And this was yet a small thing in your sight, O Lord GOD; but you have spoken also of your 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 the guilty is crooked and strange, 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, all whose works are truth, and His ways just; and those that walk in pride He is able to abase.
  • Jer 3:1 : 1 They say, If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, shall he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.

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

    10For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

    11so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing 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, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

  • Jer 29:11
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    11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

  • Ezek 18:29
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    29Yet says 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?

  • Ps 92:5
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    5O LORD, how great are your works! And your thoughts are very deep.

  • Ezek 18:25
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    25Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not My way equal? Are not your ways unequal?

  • Hag 1:7
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    7Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

  • Ps 94:11
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    11The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

  • Isa 40:27
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    27Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

  • Zech 8:14
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    14For thus says the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked Me to wrath, says the LORD of hosts, and I did not relent:

  • Hag 1:5
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    5Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

  • Jer 10:23
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    23O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

  • Isa 54:9-10
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    9For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

    10For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.

  • Zech 1:4
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    4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD.

  • Isa 8:11
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    11For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

  • Ps 131:1
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    1Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes arrogant: neither do I concern myself with great matters, or with things too high for me.

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

  • Ps 33:11
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    11The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

  • Jer 25:8
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    8Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts; Because you have not heard My words,

  • Ps 139:23
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    23Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts;

  • Jer 16:17
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    17For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, nor is their iniquity hidden from my eyes.

  • Ezek 33:17
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    17Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not fair: but it is their way that is not fair.

  • Mic 4:12
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    12But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, nor do they understand His counsel; for He shall gather them as sheaves into the threshing floor.

  • Job 17:11
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    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

  • Jer 14:10-11
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    10Thus says the LORD to this people, 'Thus they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish their sins.'

    11Then the LORD said to me, 'Do not pray for the good of this people.'

  • Zech 8:11
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    11But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says the LORD of hosts.

  • Jer 18:11
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    11Now therefore go, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you: return now everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

  • Jer 17:10
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    10I the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and 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 paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.

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

  • Jer 5:10
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    10Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.

  • Ps 10:4
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    4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God; God is not in all his thoughts.

  • Jer 6:19
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    19Hear, O earth; behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

  • Ps 77:19
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    19Your way is in the sea, and Your path in the great waters, and Your footsteps are not known.

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

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

  • 1 Sam 2:3
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    3Talk no more so proudly; let not arrogance come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

  • Ps 139:6
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    6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.

  • Jer 9:6
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    6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

  • Prov 5:21
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    21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He ponders all his paths.

  • Isa 57:12
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    12I will declare your righteousness and your works; for they shall not profit you.

  • Prov 20:24
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    24A man's steps are of the LORD; how then can a man understand his own way?

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    13And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

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    2I have stretched out my hands all day long 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, creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.