Isaiah 55:9 (BSB)

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

From Isaiah 55. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Isaiah 55:9

• 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 55:9: 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Isaiah 55:9: (Psa 57:10; Psa 89:2; Psa 103:11). "For" is repeated from Isa 55:8. But MAURER, after the negation, translates, "but."
• Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on 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 it. So Houbigant and Secker. And their remark is confirmed by all the ancient Versions, which express it; and by the following passage of Psa 103:11, which is almost the same: - הארץ...