Isaiah 55:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Isaiah 55:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 92:5
O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
Psalms 40:5
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Psalms 25:10
All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Ezekiel 18:29
Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-13)

We have here a further account of that covenant of grace which is made with us in Jesus Christ, both what is required and what is promised in the covenant, and of those considerations that are sufficient abundantly to confirm our believing compliance with and reliance on that covenant. This gracious discovery of God’s good-will to the children of men is not to be confined either to the Jew or to t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. For--referring to Is 55:7. You need not doubt His willingness “abundantly to pardon” (compare Is 55:12); for, 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 the former, as man’s would be towards his fellow man who offended him; compare the “for” (Ps…