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

Bible Comments

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 55:7. You need not doubt His willingness 'abundantly to pardon' (cf. Isaiah 55:12); because, though "the wicked" man's "ways," and 'the unrighteous man's thoughts,' are so aggravated as to seem unpardonable. God's "thoughts" and "ways" in pardoning are not regulated by the proportion of man's ways and thoughts, as man's would be toward his fellow-man who offended him (cf. the "for," Psalms 25:11, "For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity, for it is great;" Romans 5:19-20).

Isaiah 55:8

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