Verse
Isaiah 55:8 — For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways…
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”
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The verses around Isaiah 55:8.
6Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
7Let 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.
8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10For 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:
Verse explanation
The difference between God’s thoughts and human thoughts is compared to the distance between heaven and earth. It isn’t about God being incomprehensible, but about a different scale of things — especially after an exile that seemed like endless punishment and will end in restoration.
From the Isaiah 55 study in Bible in Stories.
Isaiah 55:8 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
Porque os meus pensamentos não são os vossos pensamentos, nem os vossos caminhos os meus caminhos, diz o Senhor.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
Pois meus pensamentos não são vossos pensamentos, nem vossos caminhos são meus caminhos, diz o SENHOR.
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
Porque sus pensamientos no son mis pensamientos, y sus caminos no son mis caminos, declara el Señor.
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