Isaiah 55:8 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

For not My thoughts [are] your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah,

English ASV

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.

English Amplified

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.” This is the LORD’s declaration.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.

English EASY 2024

The Lord says, ‘Remember! My thoughts are not the same as your thoughts. The way that you do things is not the same as the way that I do things.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

The Lord says, "My thoughts are not like yours. Your ways are not like mine.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

“My thoughts,” says the Lord, “are not like yours, and my ways are different from yours.

English God's Word - GW 1995

"My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways," declares the Lord.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways." [This is] the LORD's declaration.

English KJV 1611

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

English LSB

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares Yahweh.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

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

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

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

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

“Indeed, my plans are not like your plans, and my deeds are not like your deeds,

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

"My thoughts are not like your thoughts. And your ways are not like my ways," announces the Lord.

English NIV

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.

English NKJ 1982

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.

English NLT

"My thoughts are completely different from yours," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

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

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

“For my thoughts about mercy are not like your thoughts, and my ways are different from yours.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

“This plan of mine is not what you would work out, neither are my thoughts the same as yours!

English Tyndale 1537

For thus sayeth the LORD: my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,

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