9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. …
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
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…
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