Chapter 6
1 In the year that King Uzziah died , I saw the Lord sitting on a throne , high and lifted up ; and his train filled the temple .
2 Above him stood the seraphim . Each one had six wings . With two he covered his face . With two he covered his feet . With two he flew .
3 One called to another , and said , " Holy , holy , holy , is Yahweh of Armies ! The whole earth is full of his glory !"
4 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called , and the house was filled with smoke .
5 Then I said, "Woe is me ! For I am undone , because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips , for my eyes have seen the King , Yahweh of Armies !"
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me , having a live coal in his hand , which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar .
7 He touched my mouth with it , and said , " Behold , this has touched your lips ; and your iniquity is taken away , and your sin forgiven ."
8 I heard the Lord’s voice , saying , " Whom shall I send , and who will go for us ?" Then I said , " Here I am . Send me !"
9 He said , " Go , and tell this people , ‘ You hear indeed , but don’t understand . You see indeed , but don’t perceive .’
10 Make the heart of this people fat . Make their ears heavy , and shut their eyes ; lest they see with their eyes , hear with their ears, understand with their heart , and turn again , and be healed ."
11 Then I said, "Lord, how long ?" He answered, " Until cities are waste without inhabitant , houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste ,
12 and Yahweh has removed men far away , and the forsaken places are many within the land .
13 If there is a tenth left in it , that also will in turn be consumed , as a terebinth, and as an oak whose stump remains when they are cut down, so the holy seed is its stump."