Isaiah 55:8-13

8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.” This is the Lord’s declaration.

9“For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return there without saturating the earth and making it germinate and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,

11so my word that comes from my mouth will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it to do.”

12You will indeed go out with joy and be peacefully guided; the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

13Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will come up, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will come up; this will stand as a monument for the Lord, an everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.