Isaiah 55:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. ”

Isaiah 55:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 sub...
Isaiah 55:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For my (l) thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. (l) Although you are not soon reconciled one to another and judge me by yourselves, yet I am easy to be...
Isaiah 55:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Seek Yahweh, for the Great Deliverance is at Hand. Let the exiles seek Yahweh, for the time is at hand. His plans for His people reach beyond their own as far as the heavens are exalted above the e...
Isaiah 55:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

My thoughts... your thoughts. Note the Introversion of the pronouns. The contrast thus emphasized is not merely holiness, but vastness.
Isaiah 55:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts. This passage is expounded in various ways. Some think that it condemns universally the life of men, that they may not be satisfied with it or flatte...
Isaiah 55:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 985 GOD’S WAYS ABOVE OURS Isaiah 55:8-9 . My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord: for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my way...
Isaiah 55:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 55:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For my thoughts are not your thoughts— This whole period consists of two comparative sentences; the one of which sets forth the height and sublimity of the thoughts and ways of God, above the thoug...
Isaiah 55:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For my thoughts (are) not your thoughts, neither (are) your ways my ways, saith the Lord - referring to...
Isaiah 55:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Waters.. wine.. milk ] These stand figuratively, as the whole context shows, for spiritual blessings.
Isaiah 55:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

My thoughts are not your thoughts... — The assertion refers to both the promise and the warning. Men think that the gifts of God can be purchased with money ( Acts 8:20 ). They think that the marke...
Isaiah 55:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 55:1-13 , Isaiah 56:1-8 CHAPTER XXII ON THE EVE OF RETURN Isaiah 54:1-17 , Isaiah 55:1-13 , Isaiah 56:1-8 ONE of the difficult problems of our prophecy is the relation and groupi...
Isaiah 55:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Free Offer of Pardoning Grace Isaiah 55:1-13 The Prince of Life , Isaiah 55:4 , r.v. Four times in the New Testament this title is applied to our Lord, and always in connection with His...
Isaiah 55:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Immediately following the song we have the prophet's great appeal. It is made in the consciousness of the victory won by the Servant of the Lord and the consequent possibility of restoration offered...
Isaiah 55:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Among a thousand testimonies in proof of this doctrine, as if to draw an everlasting line of distinction between the perfections of Jehovah and the character of all his creatures, this of grace and m...
Isaiah 55:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 t...
Isaiah 55:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 g...
Isaiah 55:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For my thoughts are not your thoughts , &c. My disposition and way differ vastly from yours. If any man injure you, especially if he do it greatly and frequently, you are slow and backward to fo...
Isaiah 55:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Evangelical Invitations. B. C. 706. 6 Seek ye the L ORD while he may be found, call y...
Isaiah 55:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

My disposition and carriage is vastly differing from yours. If any man provoke or injure you, especially if he do it greatly, and frequently, and maliciously, you are very slow and backward to forgiv...
Isaiah 55:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Certain Fulfilment of What Yahweh Has Purposed Through The Power Of His Word ( Isaiah 55:8-13 ). Isaiah now concludes this section from Isaiah 40:1 onwards by a final statement of the triump...
Isaiah 55:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

GOD UNKNOWN YET KNOWN Isaiah 55:6-9 . Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, &c. There is a paradox in these words. They invite us to seek a God who yet cannot be found, to know a God who y...
Isaiah 55:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 55:8-9 I. The errors, in opposition to which the doctrine of the text is to be asserted, are those connected with what has been technically termed anthropomorphism. II. The testimony of th...
Isaiah 55:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 55:1 . Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. The description...
Isaiah 55:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 55:12 . The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing. Virgil has the like ideas. Eclogue 5: 62. Ipsi lætitia voces ad sidera jactant Intonsi montes; ipsæ jam ca...
Isaiah 55:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

He, every one that thirsteth The cries of the water-carriers Public messages [Isaiah] would, as a matter of course, deliver publicly in the frequented streets and bazaars, and in khans, and in...
Isaiah 55:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 55:1-23 AN EXHORTATION TO SPIRITUALITY AND REPENTANCE . The prophet passes from the ideal to the actual, from the glorious future to the unsatisfactory present....
Isaiah 55:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Israel Called to Repentance
Isaiah 55:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 7:19 ; Daniel 4:37 ; Ezekiel 18:29 ; Hosea 14:9 ; Jeremiah 3:1 ; Proverbs 21:8 ; Proverbs 25:3 ; Psalms 25:10 ; Psalms 40:5 ; Psalms 92:5
Isaiah 55:8 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Great Invitation Isaiah 55:1-13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Isaiah 55:1-13 is a marvelous appendix to the fifty-second and fifty-third Chapter s. In discussing the fifty-third chapter we saw the...
Isaiah 55:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 so...

Isaiah 55:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 55:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Isaiah 55:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 55:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 55:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 55:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 55:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 55:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 55:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 55:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 55:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 55:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 55:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 55:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 55:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 55:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 55:8 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Isaiah 55:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes