7
let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels: and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for he shall abundantly pardon your sins.
8
For my counsels are not as your counsels, nor are my ways as your ways, saith the Lord.
9
But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is my way distant from your ways, and your thoughts from my mind.
10
For as rain shall come down, or snow, from heaven, and shall not return until it have saturated the earth, and it bring forth, and bud, and give seed to the sower, and bread for food:
11
so shall my word be, whatever shall proceed out of my mouth, it shall by no means turn back, until all the things which I willed shall have been accomplished; and I will make thy ways prosperous, and my commands.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.