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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 my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Hosts.
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A Glimpse of God's Holiness
Commentators unanimously agree that Isaiah's cry, "Woe is me! for I am undone," is the universal human reaction to encountering God's true majesty. Like Job, Peter, and Moses, seeing God's perfect holiness instantly exposed Isaiah's own sinfulness and unworthiness. Scholars explain this is a moment of profound truth that shatters our self-righteousness and reveals our desperate need for a mediator.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Woe is me! — That is, I am filled with overwhelming convictions of my own unworthiness, with alarm that I have seen Yahweh.
For I …
19th Century
Anglican
Then said I, Woe is me. — The cry of the prophet expresses the normal result of man’s consciousness of contact with God. …
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
Woe to me! for I am undone. The Prophet now relates how powerfully he was affected by that vision, namely, that he was so terrified by see…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then said I, woe [is] me There is no woe to a good man, all woes are to the wicked; but a good man may think himself…
In this figurative vision, the temple is thrown open to view, even to the most holy place. The prophet, standing outside the temple, sees the Divin…
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13th Century
Catholic
In the year that king Uzziah died. After denouncing the fault of the two tribes and adding the corrective punishment, the p…
