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Isaiah 55:9

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55:9for just as the sky27 is higher than the earth,

so my deeds28 are superior to29 your deeds

and my plans30 superior to your plans.

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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. 27 Or “the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.
  2. 28 Heb “ways” (so many English versions).
  3. 29 Heb “are higher than.”
  4. 30 Or “thoughts” (so many English versions).

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In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“As the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“For as heaven is higher than earth,

so my ways are higher than your ways,

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so my ways are higher than your ways

and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

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 as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so my ways are higher than your ways,

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are my ways higher than your ways,

And my thoughts than your thoughts.

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