Isaiah 55:8

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:19

Moreover, this has seemed little in your sight, O Lord God, unless you also will speak about the house of your servant for a long time. For this is the law of Adam, O Lord God.

2 Kings 5:11

And becoming angry, Naaman went away, saying: "I thought that he would have come out to me, and, standing, would have invoked the name of the Lord, his God, and that he would have touched the place of the leprosy with his hand, and so have healed me.

Job 35:5

Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you.

Psalm 25:10

in whose hands are iniquities: their right hand has been filled by bribes.

Psalm 33:11

The rich have been needy and hungry, but those who seek the Lord will not be deprived of any good thing.

Psalm 40:5

I said, "O Lord, be merciful to me. Heal my soul, because I have sinned against you."

Psalm 92:5

The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,

Proverbs 21:8

The perverse way of a man is foreign. But whoever is pure: his work is upright.

Proverbs 25:3

Heaven above, and earth below, and the heart of kings are each unsearchable.

Isaiah 14:24

The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying: Surely, just as I have considered it, so shall it be, and in the same manner as I have drawn it through my mind,

Isaiah 53:6

We have all gone astray like sheep; each one has turned aside to his own way. And the Lord has placed all our iniquity upon him.

Isaiah 58:13

If you restrain your foot on the Sabbath, from doing your own will on my holy day, and if you call the Sabbath delightful, and the Holy of the Lord glorious, and if you glorify him, while you do not act according to your own ways, and your own will is not found, not even to speak a word,

Isaiah 65:2

I have extended my hands all day long to an unbelieving people, who advance along a way that is not good, following their own thoughts,

Isaiah 66:18

But I know their works and their thoughts. I am arriving, so that I may gather them together with all nations and languages. And they will approach, and they will see my glory.

Jeremiah 3:1

"It is commonly said: 'If a man has divorced his wife, and she departs from him, she will marry another man.' So why would he return to her again? Is not that woman polluted and defiled? But you have fornicated yourself with many lovers. Even so, return to me, says the Lord, and I will accept you.

Ezekiel 18:29

And yet the sons of Israel say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair.' How could it be that my ways are not fair, O house of Israel? And is it not instead your ways that are perverse?

Hosea 14:9

Ephraim will say, "What are idols to me any more?" I will listen to him, and I will set him straight like a healthy spruce tree. Your fruit has been found by me.

1 Samuel 16:7

And the Lord said to Samuel: "You should not look with favor on his face, nor on the height of his stature. For I have rejected him. Neither do I judge by the appearance of a man. For man sees those things that are apparent, but the Lord beholds the heart."