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Isaiah 6:5
To know now what *holiness truly means, causes Isaiah to realise his own wicked nature.
To know now what *holiness truly means, causes Isaiah to realise his own wicked nature.
Verse Isaiah 6:5. _WO IS ME! FOR I AM UNDONE_] נדמיתי _nidmeythi_, I am become dumb. There is something exceedingly affecting in this complaint. I am a man of unclean lips; I cannot say, Holy, holy,...
WO IS ME! - That is, I am filled with overwhelming convictions of my own unworthiness, with alarm that I have seen Yahweh. FOR I AM UNDONE - Margin, ‘Cut off.’ Chaldee, ‘I have sinned.’ Septuagint, ‘I...
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...
WOE. Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6. UNDONE. dumb, or lost. The essence of true conviction is. concern for what. _am,_ not for what. have _done_ or _not done._ SEEN. Compare Job 42:5. KING. C...
Isaiah is overwhelmed with the sense of his own unworthiness; he feels himself cut off by a spiritual defect from participation in the solemn mystery which he, alone of mortals, has been privileged to...
DISCOURSE: 866 ISAIAH’S VISION OF CHRIST Isaiah 6:5. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes ha...
THEN SAID I, &C.— The second part of this vision contains the sanctification of the prophet for the undertaking of a great prophetical office, and consists of two parts: the first describes the prophe...
b. THE GRACE TEXT: Isaiah 6:5-7 5 Then I said, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King...
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. THEN SAID I,...
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...
LIPS] the pure praises of the seraphim made Isaiah think by contrast of his own sins of the lips. FOR MINE EYES HAVE SEEN, etc.] No man could see God and live (Exodus 33:20)....
THEN SAID I, WOE IS ME. — The cry of the prophet expresses the normal result of man’s consciousness of contact with God. So Moses “hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God” (Exodus 3:6). So Jo...
וָ אֹמַ֞ר אֹֽוי ־לִ֣י כִֽי ־נִדְמֵ֗יתִי כִּ֣י
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, (l) Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. (l) He sp...
_Peace. It is proper for sinners to do so, Ecclesiasticus xv. 9. The prophet was grieved that he was unworthy to join in the acclamation of the Seraphim, and had reason to fear death, Genesis xvi. 13....
Here we see, even in God's own servant, what trembling is induced in a near apprehension of God's presence. Men may think lightly of sin, who never felt the galling chain of it; and some poor unawaken...
5._Wo to me! for I am undone. _The Prophet now relates how powerfully he was affected by that vision; namely that he was so terrified by seeing God; that he expected immediate destruction. He assigns...
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, WOE [IS] ME,.... There's no woe to a good man, all woes are to the wicked; but a good man may think himself wretched and miserable, partly on account of his own corruptions, the body of s...
Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Ver. 5. _Th...
_Then said I_, &c. The second part of this vision begins here, containing the sanctification of the prophet, in order to his undertaking of a great prophetical office, and showing, 1st, his state of m...
JEHOVAH REVEALED IN HIS GLORY...
Then said I, overcome with awe and terror at the tremendous impressiveness of the scene, WOE IS ME! FOR I AM UNDONE, lost, threatened with death and destruction, BECAUSE I AM A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS, th...
UNDONE: _ Heb._ cut off...
1-8 In this figurative vision, the temple is thrown open to view, even to the most holy place. The prophet, standing outside the temple, sees the Divine Presence seated on the mercy-seat, raised over...
I AM A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS; I am a great sinner, as many other ways, so particularly by my lips, which being in a special manner consecrated to God by my prophetical office, should have been entirely...
Isaiah 6:5 said H559 (H8799) Woe H188 undone H1820 (H8738) man H376 unclean H2931 lips H8193 dwell...
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 I. Consider what the prophet saw. He sees Jehovah as Ruler, Governor, King; He is upon a throne, high and lifted up. It is the throne of absolute sovereignty: of resistless, questionless su...
Isaiah 6:5 The vision of Isaiah is a true symbol of the soul's progress. I. The first stage of the vision is the revelation of God in His glory and in His holiness. The spiritual being of man truly b...
Isaiah 6:5 These verses teach us the essentials of true worship and of acceptable approach to God. And they seem to indicate these essentials as threefold, involving: I. A sense of personal wretchedn...
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...
_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...
_Then said I, Woe is me!--_ THE MORAL HISTORY OF A RISING SOUL; OR, THE WAY UP FROM DEPRAVITY TO HOLINESS Whilst holiness is the normal, depravity is the actual state of man. A restoration to his s...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 6:4 WOE IS ME! For the first time in the book, Isaiah speaks. His word is a lament over his own sinful condition. He admits that he has UNCLEAN LIPS (for the meani
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 6:1 God Redefines the Future of His People: “Your Guilt Is Taken Away.” God’s grace will preserve a remnant of his people. They will enjoy his eternal messianic kingdom and will...
A SIGHT OF GOD AND A SENSE OF SIN Isaiah 6:5. _Then said I, &c._ Visions of the throne of God were given to Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel among the prophets, and to John among the Apostles [748]. [748...
REVELATIONS OF GOD Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died I saw, &c._ [700] [700] The scene of the Vision is the Temple, and its features will have been the same whether we suppose them to ha...
ISAIAH’S VISION Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord, &c._ [712] [712] God is invisible; yet in that heavenly world in which He has His special and eternal residence He...
THE SERVICE OF THE SERAPHIM Isaiah 6:1; Isaiah 6:5. _I saw also the Lord, &c._ In that perfect prayer which our Lord bequeathed to His disciples we are taught to ask that God’s will may be done in ea...
THE MORAL HISTORY OF A RISING SOUL Isaiah 6:5. _Then said I, Woe is me, &c._ Whilst holiness is the normal, depravity is the actual state of man. A restoration to that spiritual condition is his prof...
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...
Daniel 10:6; Exodus 33:20; Exodus 4:10; Exodus 6:12; Exodus 6:30;...
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...
l am — I am a great sinner, as many other ways, so particularly by my lips. I am an unclean branch of an unclean tree; besides my own uncleanness, I have both by my omissions and commissions involved...