Isaiah 55:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 103:11 : 11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
  • Rom 11:31-36 : 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. 32 For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. 33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out! 34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?" 35 "Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?" 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
  • Ps 77:19 : 19 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
  • Ps 89:2 : 2 I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them."
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
  • Ps 36:5 : 5 Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

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  • Isa 55:7-8
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    7let 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.

    8"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh.

  • Isa 55:10-12
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    10For 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;

    11so 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.

    12For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.

  • Job 35:5
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    5Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

  • Ps 103:11
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    11For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

  • Ps 92:5
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    5How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

  • Jer 29:11
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    11For 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.

  • Job 11:8-9
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    8They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

    9Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

  • Job 22:12
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    12"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

  • Ps 113:4-5
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    4Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

    5Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,

  • Ps 139:6
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    6This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

  • Isa 54:9-10
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    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.

    10For 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.

  • Isa 66:1
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    1Thus says Yahweh, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?

  • Amos 4:13
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    13For, 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."

  • Amos 9:6
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    6It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

  • Jer 31:37
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    37Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.

  • Isa 49:11
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    11I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

  • Ps 131:1
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    1Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

  • Ps 139:17
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    17How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

  • Isa 40:27
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    27Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"

  • Ps 77:19
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    19Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

  • Ps 94:11
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    11Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

  • Isa 51:6
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    6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in the same way: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

  • Prov 25:3
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    3As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

  • Hag 1:7
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    7This is what Yahweh of Armies says: "Consider your ways.

  • Ezek 18:29
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    29Yet 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?

  • Isa 14:14
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    14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!"

  • Jer 23:24
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    24Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

  • Ps 10:5
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    5His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

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

  • Ps 89:11
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    11The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

  • Isa 65:17
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    17"For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

  • Hag 1:5
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    5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

  • Ezek 18:25
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    25Yet 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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    6For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

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    49'heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord; 'or what is the place of my rest?

  • 1 Sam 2:3
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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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    22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

  • Rom 11:33
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    33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

  • Ps 57:10
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    10For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.

  • Isa 59:21
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    21"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says Yahweh. "My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed," says Yahweh, "from henceforth and forever."

  • Jer 32:19
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    19great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

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    25"To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?" says the Holy One.

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    3For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

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    15He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens: