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For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    nor are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.
“For just as[a] the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways,
        and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 “For just as the rain and snow come down from heaven,
    and do not return there without watering the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
    yielding seed for the sower and bread for eating,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 55:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks just as
  2. Isaiah 55:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads for the eater

“For my thoughts(A) are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”(B)
declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,(C)
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.(D)
10 As the rain(E) and the snow
    come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
    without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,(F)
    so that it yields seed(G) for the sower and bread for the eater,(H)

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