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Isaiah 55:8

Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,.... In some things there may be a likeness between the thoughts of God and the thoughts of men, as to the nature of them: thoughts are natural and essential to…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

For my thoughts are not your thoughts - Interpreters have differed in regard to the connection of this verse with the preceding. It is evident, I think, that it is properly connected with the subject…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 55:6-13

We have here a further account of that covenant of grace which is made with us in Jesus Christ, both what is required and what is promised in the covenant, and of those considerations that are…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Isaiah 55:8-9

Jehovah's thoughts transcend those of man as much as the heaven is higher than the earth. The point of the contrast is not the moral quality of the Divine thoughts as opposed to those of the "wicked";…