Isaiah 6

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¹In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. ✦ ²Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ✦ ³And one cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!” ✦ ⁴And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. ✦ ⁵So I said: “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 my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of hosts.” ✦ ⁶Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. ✦ ⁷And he touched my mouth with it, and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; Your iniquity is taken away, And your sin purged.” ✦ ⁸Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.” ✦ ⁹And He said, “Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ ✦ ¹⁰“Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed.” ✦ ¹¹Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered: “Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, The houses are without a man, The land is utterly desolate, ✦ ¹²The Lord has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. ✦ ¹³But yet a tenth will be in it, And will return and be for consuming, As a terebinth tree or as an oak, Whose stump remains when it is cut down. So the holy seed shall be its stump.” ✦

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Ezek 1 ·9 Ezek 10 ·6 Rom 11 ·5 Rev 4 ·4 1 Kgs 22 ·3 Isa 29 ·3 1 Kgs 8 ·3 Isa 1 ·3

Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 6 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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★ Start hereVideoBibleProject — video overviews & word studiesBibleProject · 5–10 min · Free · evangelical
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SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical
Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Seminary

★ Start hereCommentaryThe Book of Isaiah (NICOT)John N. Oswalt · Paid · evangelical
The standard evangelical commentary on Isaiah — thorough and devotionally warm.

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VideoBibleProject — Isaiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical
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VideoWatch teaching on Isaiah 6YouTube · Lay · Free
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CommentaryEnduring Word — Isaiah 6David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
CommentaryMatthew Henry on IsaiahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Isaiah 6Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free
Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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