Isaiah 55:8

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“Indeed, my plans are not like your plans, and my deeds are not like your deeds,” says the LORD,

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  • Ps 92:5 : 5 How great are your works, O LORD! Your plans are very intricate!
  • Ps 40:5 : 5 O LORD, my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us. No one can thwart you! I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount!
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Concluding Exhortation Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the LORD are right; the godly walk in them,but in them the rebellious stumble.
  • Ezek 18:29 : 29 Yet the house of Israel says,‘The Lord’s conduct is unjust!’ Is my conduct unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?
  • Prov 25:3 : 3 As the heaven is high and the earth is deep so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the LORD caused the sin of all of us to attack him.
  • Ps 25:10 : 10 The LORD always proves faithful and reliable to those who follow the demands of his covenant.
  • 2 Sam 7:19 : 19 And you didn’t stop there, O LORD God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. Is this your usual way of dealing with men, O Sovereign LORD?
  • Prov 21:8 : 8 The way of the guilty person is devious, but as for the pure, his way is upright.
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live in pride.
  • Jer 3:1 : 1 “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?” says the LORD.

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    10The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

    11In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend.”

  • Isa 55:6-7
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    6Seek the LORD while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby!

    7The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.

  • Jer 29:11
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    11For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the LORD.‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.

  • Ezek 18:29
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    29Yet the house of Israel says,‘The Lord’s conduct is unjust!’ Is my conduct unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?

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    25“Yet you say,‘The Lord’s conduct is unjust!’ Hear, O house of Israel: Is my conduct unjust? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?

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    14“For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘As I had planned to hurt you when your fathers made me angry,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,‘and I was not sorry,

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    23LORD, we know that people do not control their own destiny. It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them.

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