Isaiah 6

Isaiah

6 ¹In the year of King Uzziah’s death, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the hems of His robe filled the Temple.

²Above Him stood seraphs[1], each one had six wings;
with two he {the seraph} covered his face,
and with two he covered his feet,
and with two he flew.

³And one called to another and said:

Seraph

“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.”

Isaiah

⁴And the posts of the thresholds shook at the voice calling out,
and the house was filled with smoke.

⁵Then said I, “Woe is me!
for I am brought to silence,

because I am a man of unclean[2] lips,
and I dwell among a people of unclean lips,

because my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

⁶Then flew one of the seraphs to me, in his hand a glowing coal in tongs that he had taken from the altar;

⁷and he touched my mouth and said,

Seraph

“Behold, this has touched your lips,

and your iniquity is removed
and your sin atoned.”

Isaiah

⁸Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:

The Lord

“Whom will I send, and who will go for us?”

Isaiah

Then I said, “Here am I; send me.” ⁹And He said,

The Lord

“Go, and tell this people,

‘Indeed, hear, but [they][3] will not understand;
and indeed, see, but [they] will not know.’

¹⁰Make 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][4],

and [be converted][5] and be healed.”

Isaiah

¹¹Then said I: “How long, O Lord?” And He said:

The Lord

“Until the cities lie ruined without inhabitant,
and the houses without a human,
and the land lies wasted and desolate.”

Isaiah

¹²And the LORD will remove the human far away, [for there will be][6] a great forsaking in the land. ¹³And yet [there][7] will be a tenth, and [they] {the tenth} will return. And it will burn like a terebinth and an oak, which though felled have a trunk that remains—the holy seed is the trunk.[8]