Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:7But LORD said to Samuel, Do not look on his countenance, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For [LORD sees] not as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but LORD looks on the heart.
2 Kings 5:11But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought he will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.
Psalms 25:10All the paths of LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Psalms 92:5How great are thy works, O LORD! Thy thoughts are very deep.
Proverbs 25:3As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable.
Jeremiah 3:1They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again? Will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou have played the harlot with many lovers. Yet return again to me,
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 55:7-13
Evangelical Invitations. ( b. c. 706.) 6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord , and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord . 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… Read the whole commentary →