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“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]
11 so will my message be that goes out of my mouth—
    it won’t return to me empty.
Instead, it will accomplish what I desire,
    and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

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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