Isaiah 55:7-11

Good News Translation

⁷Let the wicked leave their way of life
    and change their way of thinking.
Let them turn to the Lord, our God;
    he is merciful and quick to forgive.
⁸“My thoughts,” says the Lord, “are not like yours,
    and my ways are different from yours.
⁹As high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so high are my ways and thoughts above yours.

¹⁰^(A)“My word is like the snow and the rain
    that come down from the sky to water the earth.
They make the crops grow
    and provide seed for planting and food to eat.
¹¹So also will be the word that I speak—
    it will not fail to do what I plan for it;
    it will do everything I send it to do.