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Isaiah 6

Isaiah’s Cleansing and Call

It was in the year King Uzziah dieda that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple.

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 traina of his robe filled the temple.

Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.

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.

They were calling out to each other,
“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies!
The whole earth is filled with his glory!”

And one called to another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!”b

Their voices shook the Temple to its foundations, and the entire building was filled with smoke.

And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

Then I said, “It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”

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!”

Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

He touched my lips with it and said, “See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven.”

And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?”
I said, “Here I am. Send me.”

Isaiah’s Commission from the Lord

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.”

And he said, “Yes, go, and say to this people,
‘Listen carefully, but do not understand.
Watch closely, but learn nothing.’

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.’

Harden the hearts of these people.
Plug their ears and shut their eyes.
That way, they will not see with their eyes,
nor hear with their ears,
nor understand with their hearts
and turn to me for healing.”b

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.”

Then I said, “Lord, how long will this go on?”
And he replied,
“Until their towns are empty,
their houses are deserted,
and the whole country is a wasteland;

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,

until the LORD has sent everyone away,
and the entire land of Israel lies deserted.

and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

If even a tenth — a remnant — survive,
it will be invaded again and burned.
But as a terebinth or oak tree leaves a stump when it is cut down,
so Israel’s stump will be a holy seed.”

And though a tenth remain in it,
it will be burnedf again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
whose stump remains
when it is felled.”
The holy seedg is its stump.

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