8For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.


In Context

5 Behold thou shalt call a nation, which thou knewest not: and the nations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.

6 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.

7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

9 For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.

10 And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no more thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring, and give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

Isaiah 55:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

55:8For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

55:8"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord .

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

55:8|For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,| says Yahweh.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

55:8For not My thoughts are your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, — an affirmation of Jehovah,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, said the LORD.