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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.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 6:11. _BE UTTERLY DESOLATE _- "Be left"] For תשאה _tishaeh_, the _Septuagint_ and _Vulgate_ read תשאר _tishshaer_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:11 land (e-24) _ Adamah_ , 'soil.' as Deuteronomy 26:2 ; in ver. 12 it is _ erets_ , 'the earth.' see 1 Samuel 2:8 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וָ אֹמַ֕ר עַד ־מָתַ֖י אֲדֹנָ֑י וַ יֹּ֡אמֶר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Desolate. By means of Nabuchodonosor, (St. Chrysostom) and the Romans, (Eusebius, &c.) or even till the end of the world, their obstinacy will continue._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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?_] _...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE MISSION OF THE PROPHET...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    UTTERLY DESOLATE: _ Heb._ desolate with desolation...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 6:11 said H559 (H8799) Lord H136 answered H559 (H8799) cities H5892 waste H7582 (H8804) inhabitant...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION III. ISAIAH'S VISION OF GOD UPON HIS THRONE (Isaiah 6:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 6:1 THE VISION

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 24:1; Isaiah 3:26; Psalms 74:10; Psalms 90:13;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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,...

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