⁸ “For my thoughts^(A) are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”^(B)
declares the Lord.
⁹ “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)