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Isaiah 6 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Isaiah’s Commission

(cf. Eze 1:4–28 )
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:1 - In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:2 - Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:3 - And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:4 - At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:5 - “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:6 - Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:7 - With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:8 - 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!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:9 - He said, “Go and tell this people: “ ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:10 - Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes.[fn] Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “For how long, Lord?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:12 - until the LORD has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:13 - And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”
NIV Footnotes
Hebrew; Septuagint ‘You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / 10 This people’s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes
Hebrew; Septuagint ‘You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / 10 This people’s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes
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