- Seek Yahweh while he may be found.
Call on him while he is near. - Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him,
to our God, for he will freely pardon. - “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh. - For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts. - So is my word that goes out of my mouth:
it will not return to me void,
but it will accomplish that which I please,
and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge;
but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.