Bible verse
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
Isaiah 55:8 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 55.
4 Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”
6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
7 Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
11 so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
12 You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
KJV
For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
ASV
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
ERV
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
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