---
title: Isaiah 6:8
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/isaiah-6-8/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/isaiah-6-8.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Isaiah 6:8
testament: OT
section: Prophets
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# Isaiah 6:8

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying:  “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?”   And I said:  “Here am I. Send me!”

## JW Usage

"Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" The "us" is read by the Watchtower as Jehovah speaking with the angelic host or with the pre-human Jesus (Michael) — a heavenly council deliberating the prophet's commission. The same external-helper reading is applied to Genesis 1:26, 3:22, and 11:7.

## Protestant Usage

The Isaiah 6:8 plural sits inside a vision where Isaiah explicitly saw Jehovah (6:1, 6:5) and where the seraphim ascribed threefold-holy directly to Jehovah (6:3). The "us" is therefore internal to the figure on the throne, not an external council surrounding him. Note the singular execution that follows — "*I* heard the voice of Jehovah saying" (8a, singular subject) bridges into the plural "who will go for *us*" (8b), then Isaiah's "Here I am! Send me" is answered by "Go and tell" (9, singular imperative). The grammatical pattern matches Genesis 1:26-27 (plural "let us make" → singular "God created") and Genesis 11:7-8 (plural "let us go down" → singular "the LORD scattered"). Pair with John 12:41: the plural-deliberating Jehovah of Isaiah 6 is the one whose glory Isaiah saw, and the one John identifies as Jesus.

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [Let Us Make Man — The Isaiah 44:24 Trap](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/genesis1-26-let-us.md) — Genesis 1:26 / Isaiah 44:24 / Job 33:4 [Deity of Christ]