Isaiah 55:8

In 11 translations

BSB

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

KJV

¶ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

WEB

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

ASV

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.

LSV

“For My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, || Nor your ways My ways,” || A declaration of YHWH,

YLT

For not My thoughts [are] your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, — an affirmation of Jehovah,

DBY

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.

DRC

For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

GNV

For my thoughtes are not your thoughts, neither are your wayes my wayes, sayth the Lord.

JPS

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD.

LXXE

For my counsels are not as your counsels, nor are my ways as your ways, saith the Lord.

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּ֣י לֹ֤א מַחְשְׁבוֹתַי֙ מַחְשְׁב֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם וְלֹ֥א דַרְכֵיכֶ֖ם דְּרָכָ֑י נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Οὐ γάρ εἰσιν αἱ βουλαί μου ὥσπερ αἱ βουλαὶ ὑμῶν, οὐδʼ ὥσπερ αἱ ὁδοὶ ὑμῶν αἱ ὁδοί μου, λέγει Κύριος.

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• Psalms 92:5How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
• Psalms 40:5Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.
• Hosea 14:9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.
• Ezekiel 18:29Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
• Psalms 25:10All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
• Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
• Proverbs 21:8The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
• Isaiah 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
• Proverbs 25:3As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings cannot be searched.
• 2 Samuel 7:19And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant. Is this Your custom with man, O Lord GOD?
• Jeremiah 3:1“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers— and you would return to Me?”…

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