Isaiah 6:1–8

A Vision of God in the Temple

⁶In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, and the hem of his robe filled the temple.^{* 2}Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.^{* 3}And one called to another and said,

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

the whole earth is full of his glory.”^*

⁴The pivots^l on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. ⁵And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”^*

⁶Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. ⁷The seraph^m touched my mouth with it and said, “Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.”^{* 8}Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I; send me!”^*