Isaiah 55:9

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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 55:9

Isaiah 55:9For as the heavens are higher than the earth,--The near and heavenly horizonsI.THE HEAVENS ARE SO FAR ABOVE THE EARTH, AND THEREFORE SO PURE. By nature, the trend of our thinkings and activities is downward, earthly, sensual, devilish. Hence the awful disparity between the ways and thoughts of God and ours. It is impossible, therefore, for the natural man to understand God, or, to please God. It is impossible, also, for the natural man to live with God for ever, unless the wicked... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 55:9

Isa 55:9 For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Ver. 9. For as the heavens are higher than the earth. ] And that is no small deal; see the note on Psalms 103:11-12 . Lo, such is the proportion that my mercy beareth to your mercy, even the very best of you, that the heaven doth to the earth - i.e., that a most vast circumference doth to one little point or centre. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 55:9

Psalms 36:5, Psalms 77:19, Psalms 89:2, Psalms 103:11, Matthew 11:25, Romans 11:31-Zephaniah : Reciprocal: Genesis 2:1 - Thus Genesis 18:30 - General 1 Samuel 16:7 - seeth not 2 Samuel 7:19 - And is this 2 Kings 5:11 - Behold 1 Chronicles 17:4 - tell Job 11:8 - It is as high as heaven Job 35:5 - Look Psalms 33:11 - thoughts Psalms 40:5 - thoughts Psalms 65:12 - rejoice Psalms 71:19 - Thy righteousness Psalms 92:5 - thoughts Psalms 108:4 - thy mercy Psalms 139:17 - precious Proverbs 8:12 - I... 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