Isaiah 6:5-13

5 Then I said, "¹Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of ²unclean lips, And I live among a ³people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the ⁴King, the LORD of hosts."

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the ⁵altar with tongs.

7 He ⁶touched my mouth with it and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and ⁷your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven."

Isaiah's Commission

8 Then I heard the ⁸voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then ⁹I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

9 He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on ¹⁰listening, but do not perceive; Keep on looking, but do not understand.'

10 "¹¹Render the hearts of this people ¹²insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, ¹³Otherwise they might see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed."

11 Then I said, "Lord, ¹⁴how long *?" And He answered, "Until * * ¹⁵cities are devastated and without inhabitant, Houses are without people And the land is utterly desolate,

12 "The LORD has ¹⁶removed men far away, And the ¹⁷forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

13 "Yet there will be a tenth portion in it, And it will again be subject to burning, Like a terebinth or an ¹⁸oak Whose stump remains when it is felled. The ¹⁹holy seed is its stump."

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Isaiah 6:5-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 6

This chapter contains a vision of the glory and majesty of Christ, the mission and commission of the prophet, and the destruction of the Jews. In the vision may be observed the time of it, and the object seen; who is described by the throne on which he sat, Isa 6:1 and by his ministers about him; and these, by their name, by their situation, by their wings and the use of them, and by their employment, Isa 6:2,3 and by the effects their crying to one another had upon the place where they were, Isa 6:4 and next follows the effect the whole vision had on the prophet, which threw him into great distress of mind; and the relief he had by one of the seraphim, and the manner of it, Isa 6:6,7 upon which a question being put, concerning sending some person, the prophet makes answer, expressing his readiness to go, Isa 6:8 when a commission is given him, and the message he is sent with is declared, Isa 6:9,10 whereupon he asks how long it would be the case of the Jews mentioned in the message he was sent with; and he is told it would continue until the utter destruction of them, Isa 6:11,12 and yet, for the comfort of him and other saints, it is intimated that there would be a remnant among them, according to the election of grace, Isa 6:13.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 19

1. Exodus 33:20; Luke 5:8
2. Exodus 6:12, 30
3. Isaiah 59:3; Jeremiah 9:3-8
4. Jeremiah 51:57
5. Revelation 8:3
6. Jeremiah 1:9; Daniel 10:16
7. Isaiah 40:2; Isaiah 53:5, 6, 11; 1 John 1:7
8. Ezekiel 10:5; Acts 9:4
9. Acts 26:19
10. Isaiah 43:8; Matthew 13:14; Mark 4:12; Luke 8:10; John 12:40; Acts 28:26; Romans 11:8
11. Matthew 13:15
12. Deuteronomy 31:20; Deuteronomy 32:15
13. Jeremiah 5:21
14. Psalms 79:5
15. Leviticus 26:31; Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 3:8, 26
16. Deuteronomy 28:64
17. Jeremiah 4:29
18. Job 14:7
19. Deuteronomy 7:6; Ezra 9:2

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "atoned for"
[b]. Lit "fat"
[c]. Lit "heavy"
[d]. Lit "besmeared"
[e]. Or "forsakenness will be great"