Isaiah 55:8

English Standard Version 2016

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

Cross References

Psalm 92:5

How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep!

Psalm 40:5

You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.

Hosea 14:9

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

Ezekiel 18:29

Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?

Psalm 25:10

All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Proverbs 21:8

The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.

Proverbs 25:3

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable.

2 Samuel 7:19

And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. You have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God!

Jeremiah 3:1

“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.

Psalm 33:11

The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.

Isaiah 14:24

The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand,

Isaiah 58:13

“If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;

Isaiah 65:2

I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;

Isaiah 66:18

“For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,

1 Samuel 16:7

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 sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

2 Kings 5:11

But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.

Job 35:5

Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.