Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, said the LORD.… We can form some conception of them through the works of His hand, whether in nature, providence, or redemption. The psalmist describes them as permanent in their endurance; as surpassing the reckoning of human arithmetic; and as being a fathomless deep. It is told of Kepler that, one night, after hours spent in observing the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed, "I have been thinking over again the earliest thoughts of God." But there are earlier thoughts than those impresssd on nature. The love that led to the choice of man in Christ, and will culminate in the glory, is older far. (F. B. Meyer, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.WEB: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh. |
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