Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Revised Version 1895
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 unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
2 Kings 5:11But Naaman was wroth, 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 recover the leper.
Psalms 25:10All the paths of the LORD are lovingkindness and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Psalms 92:5How great are thy works, O LORD! thy thoughts are very deep.
Proverbs 25:3The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
Jeremiah 3:1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again 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 →