Isaiah 6:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Lord, how long? an abrupt speech, arising from the prophet's great passion and astonishment. How long shall this dreadful judgment last? Until the land be utterly desolate; until this land be totally destroyed, first by the Babylonians, and afterward by the Romans.

Isaiah 6:11

11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterlye desolate,