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7 aLet the1 wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man bhis thoughts;
Let him return to the Lord,
cAnd He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon. 
8 “Fora My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 
9 “Fora as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts. 
10 “For aas the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater, 
11 aSo shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me1 void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall bprosper in the thing for which I sent it. 
12 “Fora you shall go out with joy,
And be led out with peace;
The mountains and the hills
Shall bbreak forth into singing before you,
And call the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 
13 aInstead of bthe thorn shall come up the cypress tree,
And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree;
And it shall be to the Lord cfor a name,
For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Isaiah 55:9

For as the heavens are higher - I am persuaded that caph , the particle of comparison, is lost in this place, from the likeness of the particle 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 Psalms 103:11, which is almost the same: -

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d \qr haarets al shamayim chigboah ki

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d \row \trowd \trgaph108 \trleft-108 x1620 x2610 x3902 x5220 x6210

d \qr yereaiv al chasdo gabar

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"For as the heavens are high above the earth,

So high is his goodness over them that fear him."

Where, by the nature of the sentence, the verb in the second line ought to be the same with that in the first; gabah , not gabar : so Archbishop Secker conjectured; referring however to Psalms 117:2.




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