11 translations · Hebrew
Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 55:8 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
- KJV King James Version
- For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- “For My thoughts [are] not your thoughts, || Nor your ways My ways,” || A declaration of YHWH,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- For your thoughts are not my thoughts; and your ways are not my ways, declares the Lord.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- For not My thoughts [are] your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, — an affirmation of Jehovah,
- DBY Darby Translation
- For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says the LORD.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֣י | kî | For | H3588 כִּי for |
| לֹ֤א | lō | are not | H3808 לֹא not |
| מַחְשְׁבוֹתַי֙ | maḥ·šə·ḇō·w·ṯay | My thoughts | H4284 מַחֲשָׁבָה plot |
| מַחְשְׁב֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם | maḥ·šə·ḇō·w·ṯê·ḵem | your thoughts | H4284 מַחֲשָׁבָה plot |
| וְלֹ֥א | wə·lō | neither are | H3808 לֹא not |
| דַרְכֵיכֶ֖ם | ḏar·ḵê·ḵem | your ways | H1870 דֶּ֫רֶךְ way: conduct |
| דְּרָכָ֑י | də·rā·ḵāy | My ways | H1870 דֶּ֫רֶךְ way: conduct |
| נְאֻ֖ם | nə·’um | declares | H5002 נְאֻם utterance |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | Yah·weh | the LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
Related verses
- Psalm 92:5
How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
- Psalm 40:5
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
- Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
- Psalm 25:10
All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Ezekiel 18:29
Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways 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 justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Proverbs 21:8
The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
- Proverbs 25:3
As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
Read all of Isaiah 55 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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