Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 55:9
Higher than the earth; inexpressibly and infinitely; for the distance between the earth and the highest heavens is unmeasurable by any man upon earth.
Higher than the earth; inexpressibly and infinitely; for the distance between the earth and the highest heavens is unmeasurable by any man upon earth.
Verse Isaiah 55:9. _FOR_ AS _THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER_] I am persuaded that כ _caph_, the particle of comparison, is lost in this place, from the likeness of the particle כי _ki_, immediately preceding...
FOR AS THE HEAVENS ... - This verse is designed merely to illustrate the idea in the former. There is as great a difference between the plans of God and those of people, as between the heavens and the...
CHAPTER 55 SALVATION'S OFFER AND PROVISION 1. _The invitation to everyone and the promise (Isaiah 55:1) _ 2. _The sure mercies of David (Isaiah 55:3) _ 3. _The exhortation to seek and to forsake (Isai...
SEEK YAHWEH, FOR THE GREAT DELIVERANCE IS AT HAND. Let the exiles seek Yahweh, for the time is at hand. His plans for His people reach beyond their own as far as the heavens are exalted above the eart...
Jehovah's thoughts transcend those of man as much as the heaven is higher than the earth. The point of the contrast is not the moral quality of the Divine thoughts as opposed to those of the "wicked";...
DISCOURSE: 985 GOD’S WAYS ABOVE OURS Isaiah 55:8. _My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord: for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways highe...
FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS— This whole period consists of two comparative sentences; the one of which sets forth the height and sublimity of the thoughts and ways of God, above the thoughts...
2. EXTENT TEXT: Isaiah 55:6-13 6 Seek ye Jehovah 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 retu...
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. FOR (AS) THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER THAN THE EARTH, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YO...
1. WATERS.. WINE.. MILK] These stand figuratively, as the whole context shows, for spiritual blessings....
God uses ‘sky’ and ‘earth’ as picture words to show how different are God’s actions from human actions. • The sky is far above the earth. And God’s plans are much more wonderful than any human plan....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 55 THE *LORD’S INVITATION V1 ‘Come, all you who are desperate to drink. Here is water!...
כִּֽי ־גָבְה֥וּ שָׁמַ֖יִם מֵ אָ֑רֶץ כֵּ֣ן גָּ
Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 56:1 CHAPTER XXII ON THE EVE OF RETURN Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 55:1,...
THE FREE OFFER OF PARDONING GRACE Isaiah 55:1-13 _The Prince of Life_, Isaiah 55:4, r.v. Four times in the New Testament this title is applied to our Lord, and always in connection with His Resurrect...
Immediately following the song we have the prophet's great appeal. It is made in the consciousness of the victory won by the Servant of the Lord and the consequent possibility of restoration offered t...
Among a thousand testimonies in proof of this doctrine, as if to draw an everlasting line of distinction between the perfections of Jehovah and the character of all his creatures, this of grace and me...
9._For as the heavens are higher than the earth. _This agrees well with that passage in which David, describing the mercy of God, says, (Psalms 103:11) that it is as much more excellent “as the heaven...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 55, 56, AND 57. Chapter s 55, 56, 57 are exhortations given in view of these things. Chapter 55 is full free grace, which consequently embraces the Gentiles....
FOR AS THE HEAVENS, ARE HIGHER THAN THE EARTH,.... Than which there cannot be conceived a greater distance: SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, AND MY THOUGHTS THAN YOUR THOUGHTS; which may denote...
For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Ver. 9. _For as the heavens are higher than the earth._] And that is no small...
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, separated by an infinitely great distance, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS AND MY THOUGHTS THAN YOUR THOUGHTS. At the same time it is true that, alth...
ISRAEL CALLED TO REPENTANCE...
6-13 Here is a gracious offer of pardon, and peace, and of all happiness. It shall not be in vain to seek God, now his word is calling to us, and his Spirit is striving with us. But there is a day co...
Isaiah 55:9 heavens H8064 higher H1361 (H8804) earth H776 ways H1870 higher H1361 (H8804) ways H1870 thoughts...
THE CERTAIN FULFILMENT OF WHAT YAHWEH HAS PURPOSED THROUGH THE POWER OF HIS WORD (ISAIAH 55:8). Isaiah now concludes this section from Isaiah 40:1 onwards by a final statement of the triumph of God's...
Isaiah 55:8 I. The errors, in opposition to which the doctrine of the text is to be asserted, are those connected with what has been technically termed anthropomorphism. II. The testimony of the text...
Hear these inspired words, dear friends, as though they came fresh from heaven, as though God himself spoke them at this moment out of the excellent glory, for indeed he does so. The Word of God never...
It is the language of infinite mercy, speaking to the abject condition of mankind. We have become naked, and poor and miserable through sin, and God, instead of driving us from his presence, comes loa...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's everlasting salvation. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: All are invited to partake of God's salvation provided through Christ. All the world's wealth and pleasure cannot sati...
Isaiah 55:12. _The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing._ Virgil has the like ideas. _Eclogue 5:_62. _IPSI LÆTITIA VOCES AD SIDERA JACTANT INTONSI MONTES; IPSÆ JAM CARMIN...
_For as the heavens are higher than the earth,--_ THE NEAR AND HEAVENLY HORIZONS I. THE HEAVENS ARE SO FAR ABOVE THE EARTH, AND THEREFORE SO PURE. By nature, the trend of our thinkings and activities...
_For My thoughts are not your thoughts_ GOD’S THOUGHTS The thought of God! Who can fathom it? Astronomers tell us of stars in the sky at such infinite distances that their light, shooting through sp...
_Let the wicked forsake his way_ THE WAY OF RETURN TO GOD AND ITS ENCOURAGEMENTS 1_._ Here there are apparently two things expressed--a negative and a positive, two lines of conduct expressed--a for...
_Seek ye the Lord while He may be found_ THE LORD TO BE SOUGHT Notice how it reads: “Seek the Lord. ” It don’t say seek happiness; it don’t say seek peace; it don’t say seek joy. A good many people...
_He, every one that thirsteth_ THE CRIES OF THE WATER-CARRIERS Public messages [Isaiah] would, as a matter of course, deliver publicly in the frequented streets and bazaars, and in khans, and in the...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 55:7 LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAY... LET HIM RETURN. Thorough repentance is required. God’s THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS—that is, they are as high above man’s thoughts as the...
GOD’S WAY OF PARDONING ABOVE MEN’S Isaiah 55:8 _For my thoughts are not your thoughts, &c._ Suppose your sovereign taking a personal interest in you. But you have become a rebel. She has every justif...
GOD UNKNOWN YET KNOWN Isaiah 55:6. _Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, &c._ There is a paradox in these words. They invite us to seek a God who yet cannot be found, to know a God who yet cannot...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 55:1 AN EXHORTATION TO SPIRITUALITY AND REPENTANCE. The prophet passes from the ideal to the actual, from the glorious future to the unsatisfactory present. The people are not ripe...
Ho, every one that thirsteth (Isaiah 55:1), Going into the glorious Kingdom Age. Now, God detests and hates commercialism. God hates how people take advantage of one another. Profiteering on someone e...
Matthew 11:25; Psalms 103:11; Psalms 36:5; Psalms 77:19; Psalms 89:2
THE GREAT INVITATION Isaiah 55:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Isaiah 55:1 is a marvelous appendix to the fifty-second and fifty-third Chapter s. In discussing the fifty-third chapter we saw the marvelous stor...