Isaiah 55:8
For my counsels are not as your counsels, nor are my ways as your ways, saith the Lord.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance, nor on his stature, for I have rejected him; for God sees not as a man looks; for man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.
2 Kings 5:11And Naaman was angry, and departed, and said, Behold, I said, He will by all means come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of his God, and lay his hand upon the place, and recover the leper.
Psalms 25:10In whose hands are iniquities, 1 And their right hand is filled with bribes. 1
Psalms 92:5Thy testimonies are made very sure: 1 Holiness becomes thy house, O Lord, forever.
Proverbs 25:3Heaven is high, and earth is deep, 1 And a king’s heart is unsearchable. 1
Jeremiah 3:1If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man’s, shall she return to him anymore at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? yet thou hast gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and hast returned to me, saith the Lord.
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 →