Chapter 6
Isaiah
Verse 1In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Verse 2Above 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.
Verse 3And one called to another and said:“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;the whole earth is full of his glory!”
Verse 4And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. Verse 5And 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!”
Verse 6Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. Verse 7And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”
Verse 8And 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.”
Verse 9And he said, “Go, and say to this people:“‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’Verse 10Make the heart of this people dull,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.”Verse 11Then I said, “How long, O Lord?”And he said:“Until cities lie wastewithout inhabitant,and houses without people,and the land is a desolate waste,Verse 12and the LORD removes people far away,and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.Verse 13And though a tenth remain in it,it will be burned again,like a terebinth or an oak,whose stump remainswhen it is felled.”The holy seed is its stump.
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