Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
KJV
Non enim cogitationes meæ cogitationes vestræ, neque viæ vestræ viæ meæ, dicit Dominus.
Vulgate
οὐ γάρ εἰσιν αἱ βουλαί μου ὥσπερ αἱ βουλαὶ ὑμῶν, οὐδ’ ὥσπερ αἱ ὁδοὶ ὑμῶν αἱ ὁδοί μου, λέγει Κύριος·
LXX
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
ASV
כִּ֣י לֹ֤א מַחְשְׁבוֹתַ/י֙ מַחְשְׁב֣וֹתֵי/כֶ֔ם וְ/לֹ֥א דַרְכֵי/כֶ֖ם דְּרָכָ֑/י נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
דֶּ֣רֶךְ
drk
noun · 709×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת
mchshbvt
noun · 56×
נְאֻם
n'm
noun · 374×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
The first order of production maintained by the heretics is altogether indefensible. 1. I now proceed to show, as follows, that the first order of production, as conceived of by them, must be rejected. For they maintain that Nous and Aletheia were produced from Bythus and his Ennœa, which is proved to be a contradiction. For Nous is that which is itself chief, and highest…
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. This chapter is a free and universal invitation of the gospel. God offers living water, bread, and wine without money and without price. The everlasting covenant of the sure mercies of David is extended to all peoples. God's thoughts are higher than our thoughts and his ways higher than our ways — the mystery of his grace exc…
Cross-references
- 1Sam 16:7 — But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance,
- 2Sam 7:19 — And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
- Dan 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.
- Eccl 7:24 — That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
- Ezek 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?
- Hos 11:9 — I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
- Hos 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.
- Isa 30:18 — And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait
- Isa 40:28 — Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
- Isa 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.
- Jer 29:11 — For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
- John 11:6 — When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
- Luke 4:25 — But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
- Matt 7:11 — If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
- Mic 4:12 — But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
- Prov 8:12 — I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
- Prov 15:29 — The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
- Prov 17:15 — He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
- Prov 21:8 — The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
- Prov 21:18 — The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
- Prov 25:3 — The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
- Ps 25:10 — All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Ps 33:11 — The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
- Ps 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
- Ps 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
- Ps 92:5 — O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
- Ps 92:5 — O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
- Ps 139:17 — How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!