“Woe is me, for I am1 undone!
Because I am a man of aunclean lips,
And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King,
The Lord of hosts.”
“Behold, this has touched your lips;
Your iniquity is taken away,
And your sin1 purged.”
“Whom shall I send,
And who will go for aUs?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;
Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’
And their ears heavy,
And shut their eyes;
bLest they see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart,
And return and be healed.”
a“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant,
The houses are without a man,
The land is utterly desolate,
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Isaiah 6:7
mouth . . . lips—(See on Isaiah 6:5). The mouth was touched because it was the part to be used by the prophet when inaugurated. So "tongues of fire" rested on the disciples (Acts 2:3-4) when they were being set apart to speak in various languages of Jesus.
iniquity—conscious unworthiness of acting as God's messenger.
purged—literally, "covered," that is, expiated, not by any physical effect of fire to cleanse from sin, but in relation to the altar sacrifices, of which Messiah, who here commissions Isaiah, was in His death to be the antitype: it is implied hereby that it is only by sacrifice sin can be pardoned.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 6:7:
Song of Solomon 4:3
Isaiah 1:1
Isaiah 6:1
Isaiah 6:8
Jeremiah 1:9
Daniel 10:16
Amos 9:1
Zephaniah 3:9
Matthew 5:8
Matthew 23:39
Luke 1:10
John 12:41
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