Isaiah 55:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For not My thoughts `are' your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah,

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  • Ps 92:5 : 5 How great have been Thy works, O Jehovah, Very deep have been Thy thoughts.
  • Ps 40:5 : 5 Much hast Thou done, Jehovah my God; Thy wonders and Thy thoughts toward us, There is none to arrange unto Thee, I declare and speak: They have been more than to be numbered.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who `is' wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!
  • Ezek 18:29 : 29 And the house of Israel have said, Not pondered is the way of the Lord, My ways -- are they not pondered? O house of Israel -- are not your ways unpondered?
  • Prov 25:3 : 3 The heavens for height, and the earth for depth, And the heart of kings -- `are' unsearchable.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.
  • Ps 25:10 : 10 All the paths of Jehovah `are' kindness and truth, To those keeping His covenant, And His testimonies.
  • 2 Sam 7:19 : 19 And yet this `is' little in Thine eyes, Lord Jehovah, and Thou dost speak also concerning the house of Thy servant afar off; and this `is' the law of the Man, Lord Jehovah.
  • Prov 21:8 : 8 Froward `is' the way of a man who is vile, And the pure -- upright `is' his work.
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 `Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works `are' truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'
  • Jer 3:1 : 1 Saying, `Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.

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    4Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

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