Isaiah 55:8

Modern English Version

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:19

Yet this was comparatively insignificant in Your sight, Lord God, for You have also spoken about Your servant’s house into the distant future. Is this Your manner with man, Lord God?

2 Kings 5:11

But Naaman became angry and went away and said to himself, “Behold, he could have come out, and stood and called on the name of the Lord his God, and waved his hand over the infected area, and taken away the leprosy.

Job 35:5

Look unto the heavens and see, and behold the clouds that are higher than you.

Psalm 25:10

All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and truth, for those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

Psalm 33:11

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

Psalm 40:5

You have multiplied, O  Lord my God, Your wondrous deeds and Your thoughts toward us; none can compare with You. if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Psalm 92:5

O  Lord, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep!

Proverbs 21:8

Crooked is the way of a guilty man, but as for the pure, his conduct is right.

Proverbs 25:3

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

Isaiah 14:24

The Lord of Hosts has sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

Isaiah 53:6

All of us like sheep have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way, but the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 58:13

If because of the Sabbath you turn away your foot from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

Isaiah 65:2

I have spread out My hands all day to a rebellious people who walk in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

Isaiah 66:18

For I know their works and their thoughts. The time shall come to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, shall he return to her again? Shall not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to Me, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 18:29

Yet the house of Israel says, “The way of the Lord is not right.” O house of Israel, are not My ways right? Are not your ways not right?

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and those who walk in pride He is able to abase.

Hosea 14:9

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever prudent, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the just will walk in them; but the transgressors stumble in them.

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 men see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”