Isaiah 55:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

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 into the distant future. May this be instruction for the people, O Lord God!

2 Kings 5:11

But Naaman became angry and went away, saying, “I thought that for me he would surely come out and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God and would wave his hand over the spot and cure the skin disease!

Job 35:5

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

Psalm 25:10

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

Psalm 33:11

The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts 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. Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be counted.

Psalm 92:5

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

Proverbs 21:8

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

Proverbs 25:3

Like the heavens for height, like the earth for depth, so the mind of kings is unsearchable.

Isaiah 14:24

The Lord of hosts has sworn: As I have designed, so shall it be, and as I have planned, so shall it come to pass:

Isaiah 53:6

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

Isaiah 58:13

If you refrain from trampling the Sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day; if you call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, serving your own interests or pursuing your own affairs;

Isaiah 65:2

I held out my hands all day long 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. I am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and shall see my glory,

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 such a land be greatly polluted? You have prostituted yourself with many lovers, and would you return to me? says the Lord.

Ezekiel 18:29

Yet the house of Israel says, “The way of the Lord is unfair.” O house of Israel, are my ways unfair? Is it not your ways that are unfair?

Daniel 4:37

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

Hosea 14:9

Those who are wise understand these things; those who are discerning know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but 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 does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”