⁶Turn to the LORD!

He can still be found.

Call out to God! He is near.

⁷Give up your crooked ways

and your evil thoughts.

Return to the LORD our God.

He will be merciful

and forgive your sins.

⁸The LORD says:

"My thoughts and my ways

are not like yours.

⁹Just as the heavens

are higher than the earth,

my thoughts and my ways

are higher than yours.

¹⁰"Rain and snow fall from the sky.

But they don't return

without watering the earth

that produces seeds to plant

and grain to eat.

¹¹That's how it is with my words.

They don't return to me

without doing everything

I send them to do."