Isaiah's Vision of the Lord
6 In the year that (A)King Uzziah died I (B)saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train[a] of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had (C)six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called to another and said:
(D)“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
(E)the whole earth is full of his glory!”[b]
4 And (F)the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and (G)the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! (H)For I am lost; (I)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 (J)King, the Lord of hosts!”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he (K)touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”
Isaiah's Commission from the Lord
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for (L)us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.” 9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people:
(M)“‘Keep on hearing,[c] but do not understand;
keep on seeing,[d] but do not perceive.’
10 (N)Make the heart of this people (O)dull,[e]
and their ears heavy,
and blind their eyes;
(P)lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, (Q)“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until (R)cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 (S)And though a tenth remain in it,
it will be burned[f] again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
whose stump (T)remains
when it is felled.”
(U)The holy seed[g] is its stump.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 6:1 Or hem
- Isaiah 6:3 Or may his glory fill the whole earth
- Isaiah 6:9 Or Hear indeed
- Isaiah 6:9 Or see indeed
- Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew fat
- Isaiah 6:13 Or purged
- Isaiah 6:13 Or offspring
Cross references
- Isaiah 6:1 : ch. 1:1; 2 Chr. 26:16-21
- Isaiah 6:1 : [John 12:41]
- Isaiah 6:2 : Rev. 4:8
- Isaiah 6:3 : [See ver. 2 above]; Rev. 4:8
- Isaiah 6:3 : Ps. 72:19
- Isaiah 6:4 : Amos 9:1
- Isaiah 6:4 : 1 Kgs. 8:10, 11; Rev. 15:8; [Ex. 19:18]
- Isaiah 6:5 : [Judg. 13:22]
- Isaiah 6:5 : [Luke 5:8]
- Isaiah 6:5 : ch. 33:17; Jer. 10:10; [1 Sam. 12:12]
- Isaiah 6:7 : Jer. 1:9; Dan. 10:16
- Isaiah 6:8 : See Gen. 1:26
- Isaiah 6:9 : Cited Matt. 13:14, 15; Acts 28:26, 27; [Mark 4:12; Luke 8:10; Rom. 11:8]
- Isaiah 6:10 : Cited John 12:40
- Isaiah 6:10 : Ps. 119:70
- Isaiah 6:10 : [Jer. 5:21]
- Isaiah 6:11 : Ps. 79:5; 89:46
- Isaiah 6:11 : [ch. 1:7; 27:10]
- Isaiah 6:13 : [ch. 10:22]
- Isaiah 6:13 : [Job 14:7]
- Isaiah 6:13 : Ezra 9:2