Isaiah 55:8

World English Bible (2000)

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh.

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  • Ps 92:5 : 5 How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
  • Ps 40:5 : 5 Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
  • Ezek 18:29 : 29 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. house of Israel, are not my ways equal? Aren't your ways unequal?
  • Prov 25:3 : 3 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Ps 25:10 : 10 All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
  • 2 Sam 7:19 : 19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this after the way of men, Lord Yahweh!
  • Prov 21:8 : 8 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
  • Jer 3:1 : 1 "They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will 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 Yahweh.

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