Isaiah 55:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:19

And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God!

2 Kings 5:11

But Naaman was angry and went away and said, I had the idea that he would come out to see such an important person as I am, and make prayer to the Lord his God, and with a wave of his hand over the place make the leper well.

Job 35:5

Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

Psalm 25:10

All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

Psalm 33:11

The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man.

Psalm 40:5

O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

Psalm 92:5

O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.

Proverbs 21:8

Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

Proverbs 25:3

The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.

Isaiah 14:24

The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:

Isaiah 53:6

We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

Isaiah 58:13

If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;

Isaiah 65:2

All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;

Isaiah 66:18

And I am coming to get together all nations and tongues: and they will come and will see my glory.

Jeremiah 3:1

They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

Ezekiel 18:29

But still the children of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, are my ways not equal? are not your ways unequal?

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

Hosea 14:9

He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.