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Chapters 1-16 · Chapter 6

CHAPTER 6

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne high and lifted up, and his remotest parts filled the temple.

2 And seraphim stood above it; Each had six wings; With two they covered their face, With two they covered their feet, And with two did they fly.

3 And one cried to another, saying, Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts; The whole earth is full of his glory.

4 And the posts of the doors were moved by the voice of him that cried, And the house was filled with smoke.

5 Then I said, Wo to me, for I am undone; Because I am a man of polluted lips, And I dwell amidst a people having polluted lips; And yet mine eyes have seen the king, Jehovah of hosts.

6 And one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal, snatched with a fork from the altar.

7 And laying it on my mouth, he said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, And thy sin shall be expiated.

8 Afterwards I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? And who shall go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.

9 Then he said, Go and tell this people: Hearing hear, and do not understand; Seeing see, and do not know.

10 Harden the heart of this people, And make heavy their ears, And close up their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And their heart understand, And when they have been converted, they be healed.

11 And I said, how long, O Lord. And he said, Till the houses be laid waste without inhabitant, And the houses be emptied of men, And the land be reduced to solitude;

12 Till God have removed men far away, And till there be great desolation in the midst of the land:

13 Till a tenth shall return, And be destroyed like a teil and an oak, Whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves; So in it shall the substance be the holy seed.