And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God; you have spoken also of your servant’s house into the distant future. May this be instruction for the people, O Lord God!
Isaiah 55:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible My plans aren’t your plans, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord. |
And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God; you have spoken also of your servant’s house into the distant future. May this be instruction for the people, O Lord God!
But Naaman became angry and went away, saying, “I thought that for me he would surely come out and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God and would wave his hand over the spot and cure the skin disease!
Look at the heavens and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you.
All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.
The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you. Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be counted.
Like the heavens for height, like the earth for depth, so the mind of kings is unsearchable.
The Lord of hosts has sworn: As I have designed, so shall it be, and as I have planned, so shall it come to pass:
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
If you refrain from trampling the Sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day; if you call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, serving your own interests or pursuing your own affairs;
I held out my hands all day long to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;
for I know their works and their thoughts. I am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and shall see my glory,
If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not such a land be greatly polluted? You have prostituted yourself with many lovers, and would you return to me? says the Lord.
Yet the house of Israel says, “The way of the Lord is unfair.” O house of Israel, are my ways unfair? Is it not your ways that are unfair?
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways are justice; he is able to bring low those who walk in pride.
Those who are wise understand these things; those who are discerning know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him, for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”