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Isaiah 6:12
and the Lord have removed men far away, by having them led away into exile, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
and the Lord have removed men far away, by having them led away into exile, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
AND THE LORD HAVE REMOVED ... - The land shall be given up to desolation. The men - the strength of the nation - shall be taken to a distant land. AND THERE BE A GREAT FORSAKING - A great desolation;...
CHAPTER 6 The Prophet's Vision and New Commission 1. _The time of the vision (Isaiah 6:1)_ 2. _Jehovah of hosts (Isaiah 6:2)_ 3. _The prophet's woe (Isaiah 6:5)_ 4. The cleansing ...
ISAIAH 6. THE CALL OF ISAIAH. This chapter contains Isaiah's own account of his call to the prophetic office. Presumably it was written down some time after the event, but the interval need not have b...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. FORSAKING. See note on Isaiah 1:4....
The hardening of the people in unbelief is to be accompanied by a series of external judgments, culminating in the utter ruin of the nation....
_and_there be _a great forsaking … land_ Better, AND GREAT BE THE VACANCY IN THE MIDST OF THE LAND. The word "vacancy" (deserted place) is used in Isaiah 17:9: for the thought cf. ch. Isaiah 5:9; Isai...
b. THE CONSEQUENCES TEXT: Isaiah 6:11-13 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? and he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without men, and the land become utterly waste, 12 a...
And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. AND THE LORD HAVE REMOVED MEN FAR AWAY - ( .) AND THERE BE A GREAT FORSAKING - abandonment of dwell...
6:12 solitude (f-10) Or 'abandonment.'...
THE PROPHET'S CALL This c., which recounts the prophet's call and commission, would stand first in a chronological arrangement of the book. The opening words remind us of the vision of Micaiah (1 King...
_There he_ A GREAT FORSAKING] RV 'the forsaken places be many.'...
To know the purpose of God’s message gives a great shock to Isaiah. Even worse news follows. Enemies will destroy the land. They will carry off nearly all the inhabitants to a foreign country....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 6 GOD CALLS ISAIAH V1 In the year when King Uzziah died, I s...
AND THE LORD HAVE REMOVED MEN FAR AWAY. — The words point to the policy of deportation adopted by the Assyrian kings. From the first hour of Isaiah’s call the thought of an exile and a return from exi...
וְ רִחַ֥ק יְהוָ֖ה אֶת ־הָ אָדָ֑ם וְ
CHAPTER IV ISAIAH'S CALL AND CONSECRATION 740 B.C. written 735? or 727? Isaiah 6:1 IT has been already remarked that in chapter 6 we should find no other truths than those which have been unfolded...
A CALL TO HEROIC SERVICE Isaiah 6:1-13 Kings die; Jesus lives. See John 12:41. We are here reminded of Acts 22:17-18. How great the contrast between the worship of these seraphim in the Unseen-Holy...
We now begin the second part of the first circle of prophecy, which contains the prophecies during the reigns of Jotham and Ahaz. When Uzziah died, Isaiah was called to the exercise of a larger minist...
_Earth. After the captivity, the people shall be more docile. But this was more fully verified by the preaching of the gospel._...
Here the prophet, as if struck with what he had seen and heard, puts in a question, and a solemn one it is: "How long shall it be that the enemy of souls shall triumph, and fallen man remain under the...
12._Till the Lord have removed men far away. _These words contain nothing new, but merely an explanation of the former verse, and a description by other words of the ruin that shall overtake Judea; na...
But it was in the counsels of God that His presence should be established in glory in the midst of His people, and this will be accomplished in Christ at the end of the age. Hence the testimony of the...
AND THE LORD HAVE REMOVED MEN FAR AWAY,.... Not to Babylon, but to the ends of the earth, into the most distant countries, by means of the Romans; for they were but instruments of carrying the Jews ca...
And the LORD have removed men far away, and [there be] a great forsaking in the midst of the land. Ver. 12. _And the Lord have removed men far away._] Judea lay utterly waste for seventy years, insom...
_Then said I, Lord, how long?_ An abrupt speech, arising from the prophet's great passion and astonishment: how long shall this dreadful judgment last? _Until the cities be wasted_, &c. Until this lan...
9-13 God sends Isaiah to foretell the ruin of his people. Many hear the sound of God's word, but do not feel the power of it. God sometimes, in righteous judgment, gives men up to blindness of mind,...
HAVE REMOVED MEN FAR AWAY; have caused this people to be carried away captive into far countries. AND THERE BE A GREAT FORSAKING IN THE MIDST OF THE LAND; till houses and lands be generally forsaken o...
Isaiah 6:12 LORD H3068 removed H7368 men H120 away H7368 (H8765) forsaken H5805 many H7227 midst H7130 land...
YAHWEH'S CALL TO ISAIAH (ISAIAH 6:5). As Isaiah stood, or possibly prostrated himself, before the wonderful vision of resplendent holiness, it was all too much for him as he was made aware of his own...
Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died_ You remember him, that leprous king, that king who had thrust himself into the priests' office, and was smitten of leprosy, and shut up in a separate h...
Isaiah 6:1. In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with...
CONTENTS: Isaiah's transforming vision and his new commission. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Those who are to teach others the knowledge of God must themselves have the vision of God. Those a...
The excellence of the prophet's labours during the war with Pekah and Rezin, seems to be the cause why this vision occupies but a secondary place. God gave it to console the church on the death of so...
_And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not_ ISAIAH: HIS HEAVINESS AND HIS CONSOLATION 1. Isaiah summed up his whole future life in those two words, “Behold me; send m...
_In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord_ THE STORY OF THE PROPHET’S CALL--WHY INSERTED HERE Why the narrative of the prophet’s call was not, as in the cases of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, a...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 6:11 God’s discipline will leave only a remnant of his people—THE HOLY SEED—like a single STUMP left after a forest has been BURNED over....
THE PROPHET’S CALL Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died, &c._ We have here the history of Isaiah’s call to his great life-work. Perhaps in a modern biography this chapter would have been pl...
A STRANGE AND SAD ERRAND Isaiah 6:9. _And He said, Go, and tell this people, &c._ A sad and mysterious errand, the statement of which might well have quenched the enthusiasm inspired by his vision of...
SECTION III. ISAIAH'S VISION OF GOD UPON HIS THRONE (Isaiah 6:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 6:1 THE VISION
By Chuck Smith Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah, chapter 6, as Isaiah records for us his commissioning by God for his ministry. Now you remember in chapter 1 that Isaiah tells us that his tim...
2 Kings 25:11; 2 Kings 25:21; Isaiah 26:15; Jeremiah 12:7; Jeremi
THE LORD HIGH AND LIFTED UP Isaiah 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is a twofold vision suggested in the first verse of our study. "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a t...
Removed — Hath caused this people to be carried away captive into far countries. A forsaking — 'Till houses and lands be generally forsaken of their owners....