Isaiah 55:8

New Century Version

The Lord says, “My thoughts are not like your thoughts. Your ways are not like my ways.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:19

But even this is not enough for you, Lord God. You have also made promises about my future family. This is extraordinary, Lord God.

2 Kings 5:11

Naaman became angry and left. He said, “I thought Elisha would surely come out and stand before me and call on the name of the Lord his God. I thought he would wave his hand over the place and heal the disease.

Job 35:5

Look up at the sky and see the clouds so high above you.

Psalm 25:10

All the Lord’s ways are loving and true for those who follow the demands of his agreement.

Psalm 33:11

But the Lord’s plans will stand forever; his ideas will last from now on.

Psalm 40:5

Lord my God, you have done many miracles. Your plans for us are many. If I tried to tell them all, there would be too many to count.

Psalm 92:5

Lord, you have done such great things! How deep are your thoughts!

Proverbs 21:8

Guilty people live dishonest lives, but honest people do right.

Proverbs 25:3

No one can measure the height of the skies or the depth of the earth. So also no one can understand the mind of a king.

Isaiah 14:24

The Lord All-Powerful has made this promise: “These things will happen exactly as I planned them; they will happen exactly as I set them up.

Isaiah 53:6

We all have wandered away like sheep; each of us has gone his own way. But the Lord has put on him the punishment for all the evil we have done.

Isaiah 58:13

“You must obey God’s law about the Sabbath and not do what pleases yourselves on that holy day. You should call the Sabbath a joyful day and honor it as the Lord’s holy day. You should honor it by not doing whatever you please nor saying whatever you please on that day.

Isaiah 65:2

All day long I stood ready to accept people who turned against me, but the way they continue to live is not good; they do anything they want to do.

Isaiah 66:18

“I know they have evil thoughts and do evil things, so I am coming to punish them. I will gather all nations and all people, and they will come together and see my glory.

Jeremiah 3:1

“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should her first husband come back to her again? If he went back to her, wouldn’t the land become completely unclean? But you have acted like a prostitute with many lovers, and now you want to come back to me?” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 18:29

But the people of Israel still say, ‘What the Lord does isn’t fair.’ People of Israel, I am fair. It is what you do that is not fair.

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give praise and honor and glory to the King of heaven. Everything he does is right and fair, and he is able to make proud people humble.

Hosea 14:9

A wise person will know these things, and an understanding person will take them to heart. The Lord’s ways are right. Good people live by following them, but those who turn against God die because of them.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t look at how handsome Eliab is or how tall he is, because I have not chosen him. God does not see the same way people see. People look at the outside of a person, but the Lord looks at the heart.”