Isaiah 6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:6

Then flew one of the seraphim unto me ,.... When the prophet had confessed his sin; for upon that follows the application of pardon; and when the seraph, or minister of the Gospel, had an order from the Lord to publish the doctrine of it: it is God's act alone to forgive sin; it is the work of his ministers to preach forgiveness of sin, and that to sensible sinners; who when they are made sensible of sin, and distressed with it, the Lord takes notice of them, and sends messengers to them, to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:7

And he laid it upon my mouth ,.... Because he had complained of the impurity of his lips, and that his mouth might take in by faith this comfortable doctrine of pardon, and it might be filled with praise and thankfulness; it denotes the ministration of the Gospel, as a means of the application of pardoning grace: and said, lo, this hath touched thy lips ; this coal, as a symbol of the word; the particle "lo", or "behold", is prefixed to this declaration, as requiring attention to a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:8

Also I heard the voice of the Lord ,.... The Targum renders it, the voice of the Word of the Lord, as if it was the second Person, the Word, that was heard speaking; but it seems rather to be the voice of the first Person, the Father: saying, Whom shall I send ? to the people of Israel, to reprove them for their blindness and stupidity, and to threaten them, and foretell unto them their ruin and destruction; intimating that it was a difficult thing to pitch upon a proper person; and that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:9

And he said, go, and tell this people ,.... What is and will be their case and condition, as follows: hear ye indeed ; the words of the prophets sent unto them, yea, Christ himself incarnate preaching among them; the great Prophet Moses said should be raised up unto them: but understand not ; neither that he is the Messiah, nor the doctrines delivered by him; which were spoken to them in parables; see Matthew 13:13 , and see ye indeed : the miracles wrought by him, as raising... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people fat ,.... Gross and heavy, stupid and unteachable, hard and obdurate; which is sometimes done by the preaching of the Gospel, through the wickedness of man's heart, that being the savour of death unto death to some, just as the sun hardens the clay; or declare that their hearts are thus gross and stupid; or that I will give them up to a judicial hardness of heart: and make their ears heavy : that they cannot hear the word, so as to understand it; they having... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:11

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 answered, until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate ; until there is not an inhabitant in the cities of Judea, nor in Jerusalem, the metropolis of the land, nor a single man in any house in them; which denotes the utter... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:12

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 captive out of their own land, and dispersing them among the several nations of the world; it was the Lord's doing, and a judgment which he inflicted upon them for their sins: and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land ; not that there should be many left in the land, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:13

But yet in it shall be a tenth ,.... Which some understand of ten kings that should reign over Judah from this time, the death of Uzziah, unto the captivity, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra observe; and which are, as Kimchi reckons them, as follows, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah; but the prophecy, as we have seen, respects not the captivity of the Jews in Babylon, but their present one; wherefore the words are to be understood of a few... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 6

This chapter, by a particular designation of Isaiah to the prophetic office, Isaiah 6:1-8 , introduces, with great solemnity, a declaration of the whole tenor of the Diving conduct in reference to his people, who, on account of their unbelief and impenitence, should for a very long period be given up to a judicial blindness and hardness of heart, Isaiah 6:9 , Isaiah 6:10 ; and visited with such calamities as would issue on the total desolation of their country, and their general... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 6:1

The Lord - Fifty-one MSS. of Kennicott's, and fifty-four of De Rossi's, and one edition; in the 8th verse, ( Isaiah 6:8 ;); forty-four MSS. of Kennicott's, and forty-six of De Rossi's, and one edition; and in the 11th verse ( Isaiah 6:11 ;); thirty-three MSS. of Kennicott's, and many of De Rossi's, and one edition, for אדני Adonai , "the Lord" read יהוה " Jehovah ," which is probably the true reading; (compare Isaiah 6:6 ;); as in many other places, in which the superstition of... read more

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