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BOOK 23 OF 66 · MAJOR PROPHETS · KING JAMES BIBLE

Isaiah 6

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Isaiah sees the LORD high and lifted up, confesses his uncleanness, receives cleansing, and is commissioned to preach to a people whose persistent hardness will continue until devastating judgment leaves only a remnant.

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Before you read Isaiah 6

Coming from

Isaiah sings of the LORD’s carefully tended vineyard that produced wild grapes, then pronounces six woes on Judah’s greed, drunkenness, moral reversal, pride, corruption, and rejection of God’s word.

In this chapter

Isaiah sees the LORD high and lifted up, confesses his uncleanness, receives cleansing, and is commissioned to preach to a people whose persistent hardness will continue until devastating judgment leaves only a remnant.

Leads into

During the Syro-Ephraimite crisis, Isaiah tells fearful King Ahaz to trust the LORD rather than political calculation; Ahaz refuses a sign, and God gives the sign of Immanuel while also warning that Assyria will bring severe trouble.

Key understandingExplore deeper

The vision is dated to the year King Uzziah died, a moment of political transition. Against the death of an earthly king, Isaiah sees the true King enthroned in holiness.

The interpretive center of Isaiah 6 is the chapter’s own movement: the lord is absolutely holy and sovereign. Read its poetry, signs, historical references, and later biblical connections from that center rather than treating isolated phrases as detached slogans.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

The LORD is absolutely holy and sovereign

The seraphim’s cry and the shaking temple center the chapter on God’s unmatched holiness.

Cleansing precedes commissioned service

Isaiah’s guilt is addressed before he is sent.

A faithful ministry may include announcing hardening and judgment

Isaiah’s commission does not promise immediate popular success; it prepares him to speak faithfully through rejection.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

John 12:37-41

John quotes Isaiah 6 and identifies Isaiah’s vision with seeing Christ’s glory.

Matthew 13:13-15

Jesus cites Isaiah’s hearing-and-not-understanding language when explaining His use of parables amid hardened response.

Acts 28:25-27

Paul uses the same passage at the close of Acts when many reject his testimony.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Do not make Isaiah’s cleansing a ritual formula for eternal salvation.

The scene concerns the prophet’s guilt, purification, and commission in a specific vision.

Do not treat divine hardening as arbitrary cruelty divorced from prior rebellion.

Isaiah has already described sustained covenant rebellion in chapters 1–5.

Read Isaiah 6 watching for…

the contrast between Uzziah’s death and the living King

the threefold holy cry

Isaiah’s confession and cleansing

the question 'Whom shall I send?'

the severe commission and the remaining holy seed

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Chapter outline3 sections
1-4Isaiah sees the Lord high and lifted up while seraphim cry Holy, holy, holy5-8Isaiah confesses uncleanness, is cleansed, and volunteers to be sent9-13Isaiah is sent to a people who will hear without understanding until judgment comes
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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.

2

Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

3

And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

4

And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

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 have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

6

Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

7

And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

8

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

9

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

10

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

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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,

12

And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

13

But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.