Isaiah 55:9

9 "For [as] [the] heavens are {higher} than [the] earth, so my ways are {higher} than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55:9 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 55:9

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 the heavenliness of the ways and thoughts of God, the eternity and unsearchableness of them, and their excellency and preciousness; as well as the very great distance between his ways and thoughts and men's which this is designed to illustrate.

Isaiah 55:9 In-Context

7 Let [the] wicked forsake his way, and [the] man of sin his thoughts. And let him return to Yahweh, that he may take pity on him, and to our God, for he will {forgive manifold}.

8 "For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, and your ways [are] not my ways," {declares} Yahweh.

9 "For [as] [the] heavens are {higher} than [the] earth, so my ways are {higher} than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 For just as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and they do not return there except they have watered the earth thoroughly and cause it to bring forth and sprout, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

11 so shall be my word that goes out from my mouth. It shall not return to me without success, but shall accomplish what I desire and be successful [in the thing for] which I sent it.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "high"
• [b]. Literally "high"