Isaiah 55:8 (BSB)

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

From Isaiah 55. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Isaiah 55:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Isaiah 55:6-13: 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.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Isaiah 55:8: For my thoughts are not your thoughts,.... In some things there may be a likeness between the thoughts of God and the thoughts of men, as to the nature of them: thoughts are natural and essential to them both; they are within them, are internal acts, and unknown to others, till made known; but then the thoughts of men are finite and limited, whereas the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Isaiah 55:8: For--referring to Isa 55:7. You need not doubt His willingness "abundantly to pardon" (compare Isa 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" (Psa 25:11; Rom 5:19).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Isaiah 55:8: For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. (l) Although you are not soon reconciled one to another and judge me by yourselves, yet I am easy to be reconciled, yea, I offer my mercies to you.