Isaiah 55:8

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 55:1-13

Isaiah 55:1-13He, every one that thirstethThe cries of the water-carriersPublic messages [Isaiah] would, as a matter of course, deliver publicly in the frequented streets and bazaars, and in khans, and in the temple area, frequently using the common cries of the forerunners of the nobles, the morning call of the temple watchmen, who had been waiting to proclaim the striking of the sun’s first rays upon the pinnacles, the groans of the sabbals (or burden-bearers), the tumult of the buyers and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 55:6-9

Isaiah 55:6-9Seek ye the Lord while He may be foundThe Lord to be soughtNotice how it reads: “Seek the Lord.” It don’t say seek happiness; it don’t say seek peace; it don’t say seek joy. A good many people seek after joy, after peace, after happiness. I cannot find any place in the Bible where we are told to seek for peace or joy. If you have the Spirit, you will have the fruit of the Spirit; and you won’t have the fruit without the Spirit itself. You might as well look for an apple or an... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 55:7-9

Isaiah 55:7-9Let the wicked forsake his wayThe way of return to God and its encouragements1.Here there are apparently two things expressed--a negative and a positive, two lines of conduct expressed--a forsaking one way of living and the adoption of another, but in reality the two things are but one. They are two in thought and expression, but only one in conduct. The forsaking the wicked way and the wicked thought is no other than the returning with all our heart to God. You cannot separate... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 55:8-9

Isaiah 55:8-9For My thoughts are not your thoughtsGod’s thoughtsThe thought of God! Who can fathom it?Astronomers tell us of stars in the sky at such infinite distances that their light, shooting through space at the inconceivable rate of 185,000 miles a second, would require 3,500 years to reach this earth. And vet God’s thought placed them thus far away in space, arranged the laws that govern them, not unlikely has set whirling around them planets like our own, peopled with sentiment and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 55:8

Isa 55:8 For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. Ver. 8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, ] q.d., You may think it impossible, likely, that such great and grievous sinners as you have been should ever be received to mercy. But what talk you of your thoughts? Mine are infinitely above them, neither may you measure my mercies by your own models. Bring broken and bleeding hearts to my mercy seat, and I shall soon think all the meritorious... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 55:8

2 Samuel 7:19, Psalms 25:10, Psalms 40:5, Psalms 92:5, Proverbs 21:8, Proverbs 25:3, Jeremiah 3:1, Ezekiel 18:29, Daniel 4:37, Hosea 14:9 Reciprocal: Genesis 18:30 - General 1 Samuel 16:7 - seeth not 2 Kings 5:11 - Behold 1 Chronicles 17:4 - tell Psalms 33:11 - thoughts Psalms 139:17 - precious Proverbs 8:12 - I wisdom Proverbs 15:29 - he heareth Proverbs 17:15 - that justifieth Proverbs 21:18 - wicked Ecclesiastes 7:24 - General Isaiah 30:18 - therefore Isaiah 40:28 - no searching Jeremiah... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 55:8

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.For — If any man injure you, especially if he do it greatly and frequently, you are slow and backward to forgive him. But I am ready to forgive all penitents, how many, and great, and numberless soever their sins be. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 55:1-13

Sec. 3. MESSIAH AND THE GOSPEL, Isaiah 52:11 to Isaiah 55:13. Thus far in this chapter is treated the case of an exalted Church passing, step by step, through suffering and deliverances into the purity of the typical holy Zion; from this point the view is turned again to the “Servant” of Jehovah, through whom the prophet has seen the Church to be redeemed. The portrait of a suffering servant is here filled out in detail, as a side-piece (Delitzsch) to the liberation and deliverance of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 55:6-9

6-9. Seek ye the Lord Now. This time of spiritual restoration, when God is more manifestly near than usual, is the best time, because a crisis time. Let the wicked forsake his… thoughts Man’s thoughts differ from God’s in regard to his own character. He does not see himself a sinner as God does. Repentance is, therefore, an immediate duty. Other reasons are given in Isaiah 55:8-9. read more

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