Isaiah 6:8-11

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 6:5-8

Our curiosity would lead us to enquire further concerning the seraphim, their songs and their services; but here we leave them, and must attend to what passed between God and his prophet. Secret things belong not to us, the secret things of the world of angels, but things revealed to and by the prophets, which concern the administration of God's kingdom among men. Now here we have, I. The consternation that the prophet was put into by the vision which he saw of the glory of God (Isa. 6:5):... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 6:9-13

God takes Isaiah at his word, and here sends him on a strange errand?to foretel the ruin of his people and even to ripen them for that ruin?to preach that which, by their abuse of it, would be to them a savour of death unto death. And this was to be a type and figure of the state of the Jewish church in the days of the Messiah, when they should obstinately reject the gospel, and should thereupon be rejected of God. These verses are quoted in part, or referred to, six times, in the New... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 6:9

And he said - לי li , to me, two MSS. and the Syriac. Thirteen MSS. have ראה raah , in the regular form. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people fat "Gross" - The prophet speaks of the event, the fact as it would actually happen, not of God's purpose and act by his ministry. The prophets are in other places said to perform the thing which they only foretell: - "Lo! I have given thee a charge this day Over the nations, and over the kingdoms; To pluck up, and to pull down; To destroy, and to demolish; To build, and to plant." Jeremiah 1:10 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 6:11

Be utterly desolate "Be left" - For תשאה tishaeh , the Septuagint and Vulgate read תשאר tishshaer . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:1-13

The prophet's call and consecration. There are turning-points in life which give a meaning to the whole of its after-course. A light may be given to the 'mind at such moments by which it may have to steer its course for years. In moments of despondency the man of God will fall back on memory, and encourage himself by the recollection that, having once received and followed Divine guidance, that guidance will not desert him in the future. Such was this moment in the history of Isaiah. Life... read more

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