Isaiah’s Vision

1 In the year of aKing Uzziah’s death bI saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.

2 Seraphim stood above Him, aeach having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

3 And one called out to another and said,

“aHoly, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts,

The 1bwhole earth is full of His glory.”

4 And the 1foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the 2atemple was filling with smoke.

5 Then I said,

“aWoe is me, for I am ruined!

Because I am a man of bunclean lips,

And I live among a cpeople of unclean lips;

For my eyes have seen the dKing, the Lord of hosts.”

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the aaltar with tongs.

7 He atouched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and byour iniquity is taken away and your sin is 1forgiven.”

Isaiah’s Commission

8 Then I heard the avoice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then bI said, “Here am I. Send me!”

9 He said, “Go, and tell this people:

‘Keep on alistening, but do not perceive;

Keep on looking, but do not understand.’

10 “aRender the hearts of this people 1binsensitive,

Their ears 2dull,

And their eyes 3dim,

cOtherwise they might see with their eyes,

Hear with their ears,

Understand with their hearts,

And return and be healed.”

11 Then I said, “Lord, ahow long?” And He answered,

“Until bcities are devastated and without inhabitant,

Houses are without people

And the land is utterly desolate,

12 “The Lord has aremoved men far away,

And the 1bforsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

13 “Yet there will be a tenth portion in it,

And it will again be subject to burning,

Like a terebinth or an aoak

Whose stump remains when it is felled.

The bholy seed is its stump.”

Chapter 7

War against Jerusalem

1 Now it came about in the days of aAhaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that bRezin the king of Aram and cPekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but dcould not 1conquer it.

2 When it was reported to the ahouse of David, saying, “The Arameans 1bhave camped in cEphraim,” his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake 2with the wind.

3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son 1Shear-jashub, at the end of the aconduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the 2fuller’s field,

4 and say to him, ‘Take care and be acalm, have no bfear and cdo not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering dfirebrands, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the eson of Remaliah.

5 ‘Because aAram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying,

6 “Let us go up against Judah and 1terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in 2its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,”