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Isaiah 6:11-12
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.
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.
Verse Isaiah 6:11. _BE UTTERLY DESOLATE _- "Be left"] For תשאה _tishaeh_, the _Septuagint_ and _Vulgate_ read תשאר _tishshaer_....
HOW LONG - The prophet did not dare to pray that this effect should not follow. He asked merely therefore “how long” this state of things must continue; how long this message was to be delivered, and...
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...
HOW LONG? See the answer (Romans 11:25). WASTED. desolate. WITHOUT. for want of. man. Hebrew. _adam._ App-14. LAND. ground, or soil. Hebrew. _adamah_ DESOLATE. See note on Isaiah 1:7....
_Lord, how long?_ The prophet feels that in the divine counsels there must be a limit to this process of judicial hardening, that it must reach a crisis with a day of hope beyond it. But the answer is...
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....
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...
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, LORD, HOW LONG - will this wretched conditio...
6:11 land (e-24) _ Adamah_ , 'soil.' as Deuteronomy 26:2 ; in ver. 12 it is _ erets_ , 'the earth.' see 1 Samuel 2:8 ....
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...
LORD, HOW LONG? — The prophet asks the question which is ever on the lips of those who are brought face to face with the problems of the world, with the great mystery of evil, sin permitted to work ou...
וָ אֹמַ֕ר עַד ־מָתַ֖י אֲדֹנָ֑י וַ יֹּ֡אמֶר
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...
Then said I, Lord, (p) how long? And he answered, Until the cities shall be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, (p) As he was moved with the zeal...
_Desolate. By means of Nabuchodonosor, (St. Chrysostom) and the Romans, (Eusebius, &c.) or even till the end of the world, their obstinacy will continue._...
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...
11._And I said, How long, O LORD? _Although the Prophets are severe in denouncing the wrath of God against men, yet they do not lay aside human feelings. It is therefore necessary that they sustain a...
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...
THEN SAID I, LORD, HOW LONG?.... That is, how long will this blindness, hardness, stupidity, and impenitence, remain with this people, or they be under such a sore judgment of God upon them: AND HE A...
_Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,_ Ver. 11. _Then said I, Lord, how long?_] _...
_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...
Then said I, Lord, how long? that is, how long would this hardening continue? AND HE ANSWERED, UNTIL THE CITIES BE WASTED, altogether desolate, WITHOUT INHABITANT, AND THE HOUSES WITHOUT MAN, without...
THE MISSION OF THE PROPHET...
UTTERLY DESOLATE: _ Heb._ desolate with desolation...
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,...
LORD, HOW LONG? an abrupt speech, arising from the prophet's great passion and astonishment. How long shall this dreadful judgment last? UNTIL THE LAND BE UTTERLY DESOLATE; until this land be totally...
Isaiah 6:11 said H559 (H8799) Lord H136 answered H559 (H8799) cities H5892 waste H7582 (H8804) inhabitant...
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 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...
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...
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...
_Then said I, Lord, how long?_ THE STATE OF THE CHURCH I. NOTICE A FEW THINGS AFFECTING THE STATE OF THE CHURCH AND OF THE WORLD WHICH ARE CALCULATED TO EXCITE THE ASTONISHMENT AND GRIEF OF THE CHRI...
_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....
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 24:1; Isaiah 3:26; Psalms 74:10; Psalms 90:13;...
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...
Lord — An abrupt speech, arising from the prophet's great passion and astonishment: how long shall this dreadful judgment last? Until — Until this land be totally destroyed, first by the Babylonians,...