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Isaiah 6:5

King James Version (KJV)

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Isaiah 6:5

Verse 5 of 13

Scripture focus

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.

Isaiah 6:5 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 6:5

Theological / Devotional

Woe is me! Isaiah had been pronouncing woes upon the sinners among God’s people (ch. 5:8-30). Now, finding himself in the awesome presence of a holy God, he becomes profoundly aware of his own imperfection of character. The same experience will come to us as we draw nigh to God.

Mine eyes have seen. This vision of God in His holiness and glory gave Isaiah a conception of the sinfulness and insignificance of man. Looking upon God and then upon himself, he realized his own nothingness in comparison with the Eternal, his guilt in the presence of the “Holy One of Israel” (ch. 5:24). Moses hid his face when he came into the presence of God (Ex. 3:6), and Job abhorred himself and repented in dust and ashes (Job 42:6).

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