Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says the LORD.
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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, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at 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 the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’
Psalms 25:10All the paths of the LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Psalms 92:5How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep.
Proverbs 25:3As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
Jeremiah 3:1“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says 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 →