Isaiah 6

Isaiah Called to Be a Prophet

6In the year that ^aKing Uzziah died, I ^bsaw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. ²Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, ^cwith two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ³And one cried to another and said:

^d“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;

^eThe whole earth is full of His glory!”

⁴And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

⁵So I said:

“Woe is me, for I am ¹undone!

Because I am a man of ^funclean lips,

And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;

For my eyes have seen the King,

The Lord of hosts.”

⁶Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from ^gthe altar. ⁷And he ^htouched my mouth with it, and said:

“Behold, this has touched your lips;

Your iniquity is taken away,

And your sin ²purged.”

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

“Whom shall I send,

And who will go for ⁱUs?”

Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

⁹And He said, “Go, and ^jtell this people:

‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;

Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’

¹⁰“Make ^kthe heart of this people dull,

And their ears heavy,

And shut their eyes;

^lLest they see with their eyes,

And hear with their ears,

And understand with their heart,

And return and be healed.”

¹¹Then I said, “Lord, how long?”

And He answered:

^m“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant,

The houses are without a man,

The land is utterly desolate,

¹²ⁿThe Lord has removed men far away,

And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

¹³But yet a tenth will be in it,

And will return and be for consuming,

As a terebinth tree or as an oak,

Whose stump remains when it is cut down.

So ^othe holy seed shall be its stump.”