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title: Isaiah 6:3
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/isaiah-6-3/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/isaiah-6-3.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Isaiah 6:3
testament: OT
section: Prophets
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# Isaiah 6:3

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> And they were calling out to one another:  “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.”

## JW Usage

"Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of armies. The whole earth is full of his glory!" The Watchtower reads the threefold "holy" as a Hebrew superlative — emphasis through repetition — and rejects any Trinitarian inference. The verse is treated as a strong affirmation of Jehovah's transcendent purity, with no implications for the identity of the figure on the throne beyond confirming it is Jehovah alone.

## Protestant Usage

Isaiah 6:3 is the throne-room exclamation that John 12:41 redirects: "Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke about him." The "him" — by John 12:37-40's grammatical chain — is Jesus. The seraphim's "holy, holy, holy" is therefore ascribed, in apostolic interpretation, to Jesus. Pair Isaiah 6:1 ("I saw Jehovah sitting on a lofty and elevated throne") with John 12:41 ("Isaiah saw his glory" — meaning Jesus's). One person Isaiah saw; one person John identifies as Jesus; one glory the seraphim cried over. The doorstep form: "Whose glory did Isaiah see — Jehovah's or Jesus's? John 12:41 gives the apostolic answer."

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [Isaiah Saw Jesus' Glory](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/john12-isaiah6.md) — John 12:41 / Isaiah 6 [Deity of Christ]