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“Forכִּיmy thoughtsמַחְשְׁבוֹתַיare notלֹאyour thoughts,מַחְשְׁבוֹתֵיכֶםnorוְלֹאare your waysדַרְכֵיכֶםmy ways,”דְּרָכָיdeclaresנְאֻםYHWH.יְהוָה
Isaiah 55:8
Study it in the app““For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways,” declares YHWH.”
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With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 55:8, word by word
- my thoughtsמַחְשְׁבוֹתַmachshvota
thought
What one has in mind and intends.
Where else “machshvota” appears- are your waysדַרְכֵיdarche
manner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “darche” appears- declaresנְאֻםneum
declaration
Solemn words God himself speaks: "oracle of YHWH".
Where else “neum” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears
The context
7Let the wicked abandon his way, and the man of wickedness his thoughts; and let him return to YHWH, and he will have compassion on him; and to our Elohim, for he will abound in forgiving.”
8 · This verse (above)
9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are higher my ways than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.