Isaiah Chapter 6 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Isaiah 6:4

And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
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BBE Isaiah 6:4

And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke.
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DARBY Isaiah 6:4

And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
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KJV Isaiah 6:4

And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
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WBT Isaiah 6:4


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WEB Isaiah 6:4

The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
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YLT Isaiah 6:4

And the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - The posts of the door moved; rather, the bases of the thresholds shook (compare Revised Version). The shout of the seraphs shook the very foundations on which the thresholds of the gates of heaven rested - a testimony to the energy with which it was uttered. At the voice of him that cried; i.e. "at the voice of each and all." The house was filled with smoke. "Smoke" is sometimes the mere sign of the presence of God, as in Isaiah 4:5; but more often it indicates his presence in anger or judgment (see Exodus 19:18; Exodus 20:18; Revelation 15:8). Here there had been no smoke at first, and we must suppose it, therefore, a sign of the anger which finds vent in ver. 9-12.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) The posts of the door.--Better, the foundations of the threshold. The words seem to point to the prophet's position as in front of the Holy of holies.The house was filled with smoke.--The vision had its prototype in "the smoke as of a furnace" on Sinai (Exodus 19:18), in the glory-cloud of 1Kings 8:10, and possibly in its lurid fire-lit darkness represented the wrath of Jehovah, as the clear brightness of the throne did His love. So in Revelation 15:8, the "smoke from the glory of God" precedes the outpouring of the seven vials of wrath'. The parallelism of the clouds of incense-smoke as the symbol of adoring prayer (Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:4) suggests an alternative interpretation as possible; but in that case mention would probably have been made of the censers from which it rose. The incense-clouds of the Temple may in either case have been the starting-point of the mystic vision. . . .