Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says LORD.
New American Standard Bible
Nor are
King James Version
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Holman Bible
and your ways are not My ways.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
International Standard Version
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.
American Standard Version
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
Amplified
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
Darby Translation
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
Julia Smith Translation
For not my purposes your purposes and not your ways my ways, says Jehovah
King James 2000
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, and your ways [are] not my ways," {declares} Yahweh.
Modern King James verseion
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways My ways, says Jehovah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thus sayeth the LORD: My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.
NET Bible
"Indeed, my plans are not like your plans, and my deeds are not like your deeds,
New Heart English Bible
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
For, my thoughts, are not, your thoughts, Nor, your ways, my ways, - Declareth Yahweh.
Webster
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
World English Bible
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
For not My thoughts are your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah,
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Devotionals about Isaiah 55:8
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Invitation To True Rewards
7 Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Cross References
Psalm 92:5
How great are thy works, O LORD! Thy thoughts are very deep.
Psalm 40:5
Many, O LORD my God, are the wonderful works which thou have done, and thy thoughts which are toward us. They cannot be set in order to thee. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
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 this was yet a small thing in thine eyes, O lord LORD, but thou have spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and this [too] according to the manner of men, O lord LORD!
Psalm 25:10
All the paths of LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Proverbs 21:8
The way of him who is laden with guilt is exceedingly crooked, but as for a pure man, his work is right.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Ezekiel 18:29
Yet the house of Israel says, The way of LORD is not equitable. O house of Israel, are not my ways equitable? Are not your ways inequitable?
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways justice. And he is able to abase those who walk in pride.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.