KJV Isaiah 6:5 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.
NOTES:The seraphs had praised God with pure lips, and this Isaiah could not do. His lips were unclean, and that means that he as a man was unclean. A sinful man, he cannot praise God, and his sinfulness manifests itself at the lips. What Isaiah must do is praise God as the seraphs were doing, but because of his depravity, he could not do this. Those whose natures are sinful cannot praise God as they should. There must first be a cleansing of the heart. The prophet must first of all be made conscious of his own sin and unworthiness before he can praise God as he should.1
- Edward J. Young, The Book of Isaiah: Chapters 1-18 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999), 248. [↩]
