Isaiah 6:11

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁹And He replied, "Go and tell this people: 'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.' ¹⁰Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed. ¹¹Then I asked, "How long, O Lord?" And He replied, "Until cities lie in ruins without an inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied, and the land is desolate and ravaged,¹²until the LORD has driven men far away, and the land is utterly forsaken. ¹³And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land."

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Lord: Psalms 74:10, Psalms 90:13, Psalms 94:3

Until the: Isaiah 1:7, Isaiah 3:26, Isaiah 24:1-12

utterly desolate: Heb. desolate with desolation

Reciprocal: Genesis 29:19 - General Leviticus 26:32 - And I Deuteronomy 4:26 - ye shall 2 Kings 24:2 - according 1 Chronicles 20:1 - wasted Psalms 69:25 - habitation Song of Solomon 5:7 - watchmen Isaiah 1:25 - purge Isaiah 5:6 - I will lay Isaiah 10:22 - the consumption Isaiah 17:9 - General Isaiah 24:3 - shall Isaiah 27:10 - the defenced Isaiah 32:13 - come Jeremiah 2:15 - his cities Jeremiah 4:7 - to Jeremiah 4:27 - The Jeremiah 7:34 - for Jeremiah 18:16 - make Jeremiah 21:6 - I will Jeremiah 22:6 - surely Jeremiah 34:22 - and I will Jeremiah 44:2 - a desolation Jeremiah 44:6 - wasted Jeremiah 52:27 - Thus Ezekiel 6:6 - all your Ezekiel 12:19 - that her Ezekiel 15:8 - I will Ezekiel 33:28 - I will lay Ezekiel 36:4 - desolate Daniel 8:13 - How Daniel 9:2 - the desolations Micah 2:4 - We Micah 7:13 - General Zephaniah 1:2 - I will Zephaniah 1:13 - their goods

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."

Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

2 Chronicles 34:27
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,' declares the LORD.

Psalms 11:5
The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

Psalms 55:9
O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

Psalms 140:11
May no slanderer be established in the land. May calamity hunt down the man of violence.

Isaiah 60:18
No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said I, Lord, how long?.... That is, how long will this blindness, hardness, stupidity, and impenitence, remain with this people, or they be under such a sore judgment of God upon them:

and he answered, until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate; until there is not an inhabitant in the cities of Judea, nor in Jerusalem, the metropolis of the land, nor a single man in any house in them; which denotes the utter desolation of the land and city; and can refer to no other than to the desolation thereof by the Romans; and till that time the blindness which happened to them continued; the things which belonged to their peace were hid from their eyes till their city was destroyed, and not one stone left upon another, Luke 19:42 till that time, and even to this day, the veil of blindness, ignorance, and and penitence, is on their hearts, and will remain until they are converted to the Lord, in the latter day; see Romans 11:25 2 Corinthians 3:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How long - The prophet did not dare to pray that this effect should not follow. He asked merely therefore “how long” this state of things must continue; how long this message was to be delivered, and how long it should be attended with these painful effects.

Until the cities ... - They will remain perverse and obstinate until the land is completely destroyed by divine judgments. Still the truth is to be proclaimed, though it is known it will have no effect in reforming the nation. This refers, doubtless, to the destruction that was accomplished by the Babylonians.

The houses without man - This is strong language, denoting the certain and widespread desolation that should come upon the nation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 6:11. Be utterly desolate - "Be left"] For תשאה tishaeh, the Septuagint and Vulgate read תשאר tishshaer.