| 1 | In the year that King Uzziah died, [in a vision] I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the skirts of His train filled the [most holy part of the] temple. |
| 2 | Above Him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two [each] covered his [own] face, and with two [each] covered his feet, and with two [each] flew. |
| 3 | And one cried to another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory! |
| 4 | And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who cried, and the house was filled with smoke. |
| 5 | Then said I, Woe is me! For I am undone
and
ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts! |
| 6 | Then flew one of the seraphim [heavenly beings] to me, having a live coal in his hand which he had taken with tongs from off the altar; |
| 7 | And with it he touched my mouth and said, Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity
and
guilt are taken away, and your sin is completely atoned for
and
forgiven. |
| 8 | Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. |
| 9 | And He said, Go and tell this people, Hear
and
hear continually, but understand not; and see
and
see continually, but do not apprehend with your mind. |
| 10 | Make the heart of this people fat; and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn again and be healed. |
| 11 | Then said I, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until cities lie waste without inhabitant and houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate, |
| 12 | And the Lord removes [His] people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. |
| 13 | And though a tenth [of the people] remain in the land, it will be for their destruction [eaten up and burned] like a terebinth tree or like an oak whose stump
and
substance remain when they are felled
or
have cast their leaves. The holy seed [the elect remnant] is the stump
and
substance [of Israel]. |
Cross references:
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Isaiah 6:1 : John 12:41.
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