Isaiah 55:8
For not My thoughts [are] your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, — an affirmation of Jehovah,
Young's Literal Translation
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 16:7And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, 'Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for [it is] not as man seeth — for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'
2 Kings 5:11And Naaman is wroth, and goeth on, and saith, 'Lo, I said, Unto me he doth certainly come out, and hath stood and called in the name of Jehovah his God, and waved his hand over the place, and recovered the leper.
Psalms 25:10All the paths of Jehovah [are] kindness and truth, To those keeping His covenant, And His testimonies.
Psalms 92:5How great have been Thy works, O Jehovah, Very deep have been Thy thoughts.
Proverbs 25:3The heavens for height, and the earth for depth, And the heart of kings — [are] unsearchable.
Jeremiah 3:1Saying, 'Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.
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 →