6In the year of the death of Uzziah the king, I saw the Lord sitting on a high and raised throne, and the hem of his robe was filling the temple. ²Seraphs were standing above him. Each had six wings:^a with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

³And the one called to the other and said,

“Holy, holy, holy is Yahweh of hosts!

The whole earth is full of his glory.”^b

⁴And the pivots of the thresholds shook from the sound of those who called, and the house^c was filled with smoke.

⁵And I said, “Woe to me! For I am destroyed!^d For I am a man of unclean lips,^e and I am living among^f a people of unclean lips,^g for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!”

⁶Then one of the seraphs flew to me, and in his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs.

⁷And he touched my mouth, and he said,

“Look! This has touched your lips

and has removed your guilt,

and your sin is annulled.”

⁸Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,

“Whom shall I send?

And who will go for us?”

And I said,

“I am here!

Send me!”

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Isaiah 6:5: 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!”

Footnotes

aLiterally “six wings six wings for one”
bLiterally “fullness of all of the earth glory him”
cOr “temple”
dOr “silenced”
eLiterally “unclean of lips”
fWith an emphatic sense: “in the very heart and midst of”
gLiterally “unclean of lips”