Now for the first time Isaiah hears the voice of God, the purification of his lips having fitted him for personal converse with Jehovah and spiritual sympathy with His purposes.

who will go for us? The plural is not that of majesty, but includes the "council of the holy ones" (Psalms 89:7), or the angelic "hosts of heaven" (1 Kings 22:19 f.).

Here am I; send me The spontaneity and self-abandonment of this response are characteristic of Isaiah. He is as yet ignorant of the nature of his commission, yet he freely accepts it; and throughout life he never felt his message to be a grievous burden, as Jeremiah often did.

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