Isaiah 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.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

In Context

8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says LORD.

10For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven, and returns not there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

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Cross References

Psalms 36:5Thy loving kindness, O LORD, is in the heavens, thy faithfulness to the skies.

Psalms 89:2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness thou will establish in the very heavens.

Psalms 103:11For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

Romans 11:31so also now these have been disobedient for thy mercy, so that they also may receive mercy.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 55:7-13

Evangelical Invitations. ( b. c. 706.) 6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord , and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord . 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10… Read the whole commentary →

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