isaiah-55:8-9

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 55:8

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

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 55:8

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

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

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