Isaiah 55:8

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The LORD says: “My thoughts and my ways are not like yours.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:19

and yet you have promised to do even more. Is this the way you usually treat people?

2 Kings 5:11

But Naaman stormed off, grumbling, “Why couldn't he come out and talk to me? I thought he would be sure to stand in front of me and pray to the LORD his God, then wave his hand over my skin and cure me.

Job 35:5

Look up to the heavens and think! Do your sins hurt God?

Psalm 25:10

In everything you do, you are kind and faithful to everyone who keeps our agreement with you.

Psalm 33:11

But what the LORD has planned will stand for ever. His thoughts never change.

Psalm 40:5

You, LORD God, have done many wonderful things, and you have planned marvellous things for us. No one is like you! I would never be able to tell all you have done.

Psalm 92:5

You do great things, LORD. Your thoughts are too deep

Proverbs 21:8

All crooks are liars, but anyone who is innocent will do right.

Proverbs 25:3

Who can fully understand the thoughts of a ruler? They reach beyond the sky and go deep in the earth.

Isaiah 14:24

The LORD All-Powerful has made this promise: Everything I have planned will happen just as I said.

Isaiah 53:6

All of us were like sheep that had wandered off. We had each gone our own way, but the LORD gave him the punishment we deserved.

Isaiah 58:13

But first, you must start respecting the Sabbath as a joyful day of worship. You must stop doing and saying whatever you please on this special day.

Isaiah 65:2

All day long I have reached out to stubborn and sinful people going their own way.

Isaiah 66:18

I know everything you do and think! The time has now come to bring together the people of every language and nation and to show them my glory

Jeremiah 3:1

The LORD said to the people of Israel: If a divorced woman marries, can her first husband ever marry her again? No, because this would pollute the land. But you have more gods than a prostitute has lovers. Why should I take you back?

Ezekiel 18:29

But you still say that I am unfair. You are the ones who have done wrong and are unfair!

Daniel 4:37

That's why I say: “Praise and honour the King who rules from heaven! Everything he does is honest and fair, and he can shatter the power of those who are proud.”

Hosea 14:9

If you are wise, you will know and understand what I mean. I am the LORD, and I lead you along the right path. If you obey me, we will walk together, but if you are wicked, you will stumble.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the LORD told him, “Samuel, don't think Eliab is the one just because he's tall and handsome. He isn't the one I've chosen. People judge others by what they look like, but I judge people by what is in their hearts.”