Isaiah 55:8
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh.
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- Ps 92:5 : 5 How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
- Ps 40:5 : 5 Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
- Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
- Ezek 18:29 : 29 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. house of Israel, are not my ways equal? Aren't your ways unequal?
- Prov 25:3 : 3 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
- Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Ps 25:10 : 10 All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- 2 Sam 7:19 : 19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this after the way of men, Lord Yahweh!
- Prov 21:8 : 8 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
- Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Jer 3:1 : 1 "They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh.
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- Isa 55:9-113 verses92%
9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
- Isa 55:6-72 verses77%
6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:
7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
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11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
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29 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. house of Israel, are not my ways equal? Aren't your ways unequal?
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5 How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
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25 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren't your ways unequal?
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7 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: "Consider your ways.
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11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
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27 Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"
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14 For thus says Yahweh of Armies: "As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I didn't repent;
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5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
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23 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
- Isa 54:9-102 verses69%
9 "For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed," says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
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4 Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
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11 For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
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1 Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
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3 Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
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11 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
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8 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies: Because you have not heard my words,
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23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
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17 For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
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17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
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12 But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
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11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
- Jer 14:10-112 verses69%
10 Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
11 Yahweh said to me, Don't pray for this people for [their] good.
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11 But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days," says Yahweh of Armies.
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11 Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.
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10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
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8 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
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17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
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10 "Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.
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4 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
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19 Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
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19 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
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6 "For I, Yahweh, don't change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
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8 For he says, "Aren't all of my princes kings?
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3 "Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
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6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
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6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.
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21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.
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12 I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.
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24 A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?
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13 Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
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2 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
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13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."