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Isaiah's Vision of the Lord

 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train^[a] of his robe filled the temple. ² Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ³ And one called to another and said:

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!”^[b]

⁴ And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. ⁵ And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for 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 one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷ And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

Isaiah's Commission from the Lord

⁸ And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” ⁹ And he said, “Go, and say to this people:

“‘Keep on hearing,^[c] but do not understand;
keep on seeing,^[d] but do not perceive.’
¹⁰ Make the heart of this people dull,^[e]
and their ears heavy,
and blind their eyes;
lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”
¹¹ Then I said, “How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
¹² and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
¹³ And though a tenth remain in it,
it will be burned^[f] again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
whose stump remains
when it is felled.”
The holy seed^[g] is its stump.

Footnotes:

1. Isaiah 6:1 Or hem
2. Isaiah 6:3 Or may his glory fill the whole earth
3. Isaiah 6:9 Or Hear indeed
4. Isaiah 6:9 Or see indeed
5. Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew fat
6. Isaiah 6:13 Or purged
7. Isaiah 6:13 Or offspring

Cross references:

1. Isaiah 6:1 : ch. 1:1; 2 Chr. 26:16-21
2. Isaiah 6:1 : [John 12:41]
3. Isaiah 6:2 : Rev. 4:8
4. Isaiah 6:3 : [See ver. 2 above]; Rev. 4:8
5. Isaiah 6:3 : Ps. 72:19
6. Isaiah 6:4 : Amos 9:1
7. Isaiah 6:4 : 1 Kgs. 8:10, 11; Rev. 15:8; [Ex. 19:18]
8. Isaiah 6:5 : [Judg. 13:22]
9. Isaiah 6:5 : [Luke 5:8]
10. Isaiah 6:5 : ch. 33:17; Jer. 10:10; [1 Sam. 12:12]
11. Isaiah 6:7 : Jer. 1:9; Dan. 10:16
12. Isaiah 6:8 : See Gen. 1:26
13. Isaiah 6:9 : Cited Matt. 13:14, 15; Acts 28:26, 27; [Mark 4:12; Luke 8:10; Rom. 11:8]
14. Isaiah 6:10 : Cited John 12:40
15. Isaiah 6:10 : Ps. 119:70
16. Isaiah 6:10 : [Jer. 5:21]
17. Isaiah 6:11 : Ps. 79:5; 89:46
18. Isaiah 6:11 : [ch. 1:7; 27:10]
19. Isaiah 6:13 : [ch. 10:22]
20. Isaiah 6:13 : [Job 14:7]
21. Isaiah 6:13 : Ezra 9:2