Seraphs are standing above it: six wings hath each one; with two each covereth its face, and with two each covereth its feet, and with two each flieth.Isaiah 6:2 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleAbove it stood the seraphim - שרפים seraphim, from שרף seraph, to burn. He saw says Kimchi, the angels as flames of fire, that the depravity of that generation might be exhibited, which was worthy of being totally burnt up.
He covered his feet "He covereth his feet" - By the feet the Hebrews mean all the lower parts of the body. But the people of the East generally wearing long robes, reaching to the ground, and covering the lower parts of the body down to the feet, it may hence have been thought want of respect and decency to appear in public and on solemn occasions with even the feet themselves uncovered. Kempfer, speaking of the king of Persia giving audience, says, Rex in medio supremi atrii cruribus more patrio inflexis sedebat: corpus tunica investiebat flava, ad suras cum staret protensa; discumbentis vero pedes discalceatos pro urbanitate patria operiens. - Amoen. Exot. p. 227. "The king sat on the floor cross-legged, as is the custom of the country. He was covered with a yellow garment, which reached down to the feet when standing, but covered the feet for decency when sitting with his slippers off." Sir John Chardin's MS. note on this place of Isaiah is as follows: Grande marque de respect en orient de se cacher les pieds, quand on est assis, et de baisser le visage. Quand le souvrain se monstre en Chine et a Japon, chacun se jette le visage contre terre, et il n'est pas permis de regarder le roi; "It is a great mark of respect in the East to cover the feet, and to bow down the head in the presence of the king."
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stood
1 Kings 22:19 And he said, Hear you therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne...
Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Daniel 7:10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered to him...
Zechariah 3:4 And he answered and spoke to those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And to him he said, Behold...
Luke 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
Revelation 7:11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces...
seraphims
Psalm 104:4 Who makes his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
Ezekiel 1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself...
Hebrews 1:7 And of the angels he said, Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
wings
Exodus 25:20 And the cherubim shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings...
Exodus 37:9 And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another...
1 Kings 6:24,27 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub...
1 Kings 8:7 For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
Ezekiel 1:6,9,24 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings...
Ezekiel 10:21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
Revelation 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying...
covered his face
Genesis 17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
Exodus 3:6 Moreover he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face...
1 Kings 19:13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave...
Psalm 89:7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
his feet
Job 4:18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
Job 15:15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Ezekiel 1:11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another...
did fly
Isaiah 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Psalm 18:10 And he rode on a cherub, and did fly: yes, he did fly on the wings of the wind.
Psalm 103:20 Bless the LORD, you his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening to the voice of his word.
Ezekiel 10:16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth...
Daniel 9:21 Yes, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly...
Revelation 8:13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the middle of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe...
Revelation 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the middle of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell on the earth...
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