Isaiah 6

Isaiah’s Commission

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.
3 And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
9 He said, “Go and tell this people: “ ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
10 Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. [a]Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,
12 until the LORD has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”

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Cross References 45

  • 1. S 2 Chronicles 26:22,23
  • 2. S 2 Kings 15:7
  • 3. S Exodus 24:10; S Numbers 12:8; John 12:41
  • 4. S 1 Kings 22:19; S Psalms 9:4; S Psalms 123:1; S Revelation 4:2
  • 5. Isaiah 52:13; Isaiah 53:12
  • 6. Revelation 1:13
  • 7. Ezekiel 1:5; Ezekiel 10:15; Revelation 4:8
  • 8. Ezekiel 1:11
  • 9. S Exodus 15:11
  • 10. Psalms 89:8
  • 11. Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 54:5; Malachi 1:11
  • 12. S Exodus 16:7; Numbers 14:21; Psalms 72:19; Revelation 4:8
  • 13. S Exodus 19:18; S Exodus 40:34; Ezekiel 43:5; Ezekiel 44:4; Revelation 15:8
  • 14. S Isaiah 5:8
  • 15. S Numbers 17:12; S Deuteronomy 5:26
  • 16. Luke 5:8
  • 17. Exodus 6:12
  • 18. Isaiah 59:3; Jeremiah 9:3-8
  • 19. S Exodus 24:10
  • 20. Psalms 45:3; Isaiah 24:23; Isaiah 32:1; Isaiah 33:17; Jeremiah 51:57
  • 21. S Job 42:5
  • 22. S Leviticus 10:1; Ezekiel 10:2
  • 23. Jeremiah 1:9; Daniel 10:16
  • 24. S Leviticus 26:41; Isaiah 45:25; Daniel 12:3; 1 John 1:7
  • 25. S Job 40:9; Acts 9:4
  • 26. Jeremiah 26:12,15
  • 27. S Genesis 1:26
  • 28. S Genesis 22:1; S Exodus 3:4
  • 29. Ezekiel 3:11; Amos 7:15; Matthew 28:19
  • 30. Jeremiah 5:21; S Matthew 13:15*; Luke 8:10*
  • 31. S Exodus 4:21; Deuteronomy 32:15; Psalms 119:70
  • 32. Isaiah 29:9; Isaiah 42:18-20; Isaiah 43:8; Isaiah 44:18
  • 33. S Deuteronomy 29:4; Ezekiel 12:2; Mark 8:18; Jeremiah 5:21
  • 34. S Deuteronomy 32:39; Matthew 13:13-15; Mark 4:12*; John 12:40*; Acts 28:26-27*
  • 35. Psalms 79:5
  • 36. S Leviticus 26:31; S Jeremiah 4:13
  • 37. S Leviticus 26:43; Isaiah 24:10
  • 38. Psalms 79:1; S Psalms 109:11; Jeremiah 35:17
  • 39. S Deuteronomy 28:64
  • 40. S Isaiah 5:5,9; Isaiah 60:15; Isaiah 62:4; Jeremiah 4:29; Jeremiah 30:17
  • 41. S Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 10:22
  • 42. S Isaiah 5:6
  • 43. S Job 14:8
  • 44. S Leviticus 27:30; S Deuteronomy 14:2
  • 45. S Job 14:7

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Hebrew; Septuagint "‘You will be ever hearing, but never understanding;" / "you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’" / 10"This people’s heart has become calloused;" / "they hardly hear with their ears," / "and they have closed their eyes"

Isaiah 6 Commentaries

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