Isaiah 55:9

For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

10And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no more thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring, and give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

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Cross References

Psalms 36:5He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good : but evil he hath not hated.

Psalms 89:2The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.

Psalms 103:11For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him.

Romans 11:31So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they also may obtain 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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