Isaiah 55:6 Seek<span class="crossreference" data-link="(T)” data-cr=”#cen-NIV-18747T” style=”box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;”> the Lord while he may be found; call<span class="crossreference" data-link="(V)” data-cr=”#cen-NIV-18747V” style=”box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;”> on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake<span class="crossreference" data-link="(W)” data-cr=”#cen-NIV-18748W” style=”box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;”> their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn<span class="crossreference" data-link="(Y)” data-cr=”#cen-NIV-18748Y” style=”box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;”> to the Lord, and he will have mercy<span class="crossreference" data-link="(Z)” data-cr=”#cen-NIV-18748Z” style=”box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;”> on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts<span class="crossreference" data-link="(AB)” data-cr=”#cen-NIV-18749AB” style=”box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; top: 0px;”> are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.