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Isaiah 55:8

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55:8“Indeed,22 my plans23 are not like24 your plans,

and my deeds25 are not like26 your deeds,

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Isaiah 55:8–9: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares 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.

Footnotes

  1. 22 Or “For” (, , , ).
  2. 23 Or “thoughts” (so many English versions).
  3. 24 Heb “are not.” “Like” is interpretive, but v. 9 indicates that a comparison is in view.
  4. 25 Heb “ways” (so many English versions).
  5. 26 Heb “are not.” “Like” is interpretive, but v. 9 indicates that a comparison is in view.

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways,”

declares the Lord.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

and your ways are not my ways.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.

“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

and your ways are not my ways,”

declares Yahweh.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

Neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

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