Isaiah 6:5 - Exposition

I am undone ; literally, cut off , destroyed (comp. Isaiah 15:1 ; Jeremiah 47:5 ; Hosea 4:5 , Hosea 4:6 , etc.). God once said himself, "There shall no man see me and live" ( Exodus 33:20 ). Men expected to die even when they had seen angels of God ( Genesis 32:30 ; 6:22 , 6:23 ; 13:22 ). How we are to reconcile Exodus 33:20 with this passage, Job 42:5 , and Ezekiel 1:26-28 , is uncertain. Perhaps the ecstatic sight was not included in the " seeing " of which God spoke to Moses. I am a man of unclean lips. A man must be indeed" perfect" never to offend in word ( James 3:2 ). Isaiah felt that he had often so offended. His lips were not " clean " in God's sight, and if not his lips, then not his heart; for "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh" ( Matthew 12:34 ). I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. Men catch up the phraseology of their time, and use wrong forms of speech, because they hear them daily. "Evil communications corrupt good manners" ( 1 Corinthians 15:33 ).