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Isaiah 6 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Isaiah’s Vision of the Lord

1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train[fn] of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above 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. 3 And one called to another and said:

 

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

the whole earth is full of his glory!”[fn]

 

4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 And 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!”

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 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 us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” 9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people:

 

“‘Keep on hearing,[fn] but do not understand;

keep on seeing,[fn] but do not perceive.’

10 Make the heart of this people dull,[fn]

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.”

11 Then I said, “How long, O Lord?”

And he said:

“Until 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 And though a tenth remain in it,

it will be burned[fn] again,

like a terebinth or an oak,

whose stump remains

when it is felled.”

The holy seed[fn] is its stump.

 
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ESV Footnotes
Or hem
Or may his glory fill the whole earth
Or Hear indeed
Or see indeed
Hebrew fat
Or purged
Or offspring
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