"For my thoughts {are} not your thoughts, neither {are} your ways my ways, saith the LORD." — Isaiah 55:8

Isaiah 55:8 · KJV

“For my thoughts {are} not your thoughts, neither {are} your ways my ways, saith the LORD.”

— Isaiah 55:8

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. {the unrighteous...: Heb. the man of iniquity} {abundantly...: Heb. multiply to pardon}

Verse 9

For {as} the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55 — Context

Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

For my thoughts {are} not your thoughts, neither {are} your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

For {as} the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

Cross References

Psalms 92:5

O LORD, how great are thy works! {and} thy thoughts are very deep.

Psalms 40:5

Many, O LORD my God, {are} thy wonderful works {which} thou hast done, and thy thoughts {which are} to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: {if} I would declare and speak {of them}, they are more than can be numbered. {they cannot...: or, none can order them unto thee}

Hosea 14:9

Who {is} wise, and he shall understand these {things}? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD {are} right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

Ezekiel 18:29

Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?

Psalms 25:10

All the paths of the LORD {are} mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Daniel 4:37

Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works {are} truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. {laid...: Heb. made the iniquity of us all to meet on him}

Proverbs 21:8

The way of man {is} froward and strange: but {as for} the pure, his work {is} right.