Isaiah 55:8

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

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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...
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 anothe...
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...
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.
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...
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 th...
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 sublimit...
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)...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Waters.. wine.. milk ] These stand figuratively, as the whole context shows, for spiritual blessings.
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 w...
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 p...
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 appli...
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...
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 c...
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 na...
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.,...
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 great...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Evangelical Invitations. B. C. 706. ...
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 mal...
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 Isaia...
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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

GOD’S WAY OF PARDONING ABOVE MEN’S Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, &c. Suppose your sovereign taking a personal intere...
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...
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 w...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

It is the language of infinite mercy, speaking to the abject condition of mankind. We have become naked, and poor and miserable through sin, and God,...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Hear these inspired words, dear friends, as though they came fresh from heaven, as though God himself spoke them at this moment out of the excellent...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Biblical Illustrator

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The Biblical Illustrator

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The Biblical Illustrator

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The Biblical Illustrator

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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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 ; Psal...
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....
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...

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

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 55:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 55:8