The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Isaiah 06
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
onehad six wings. Withtwohe coveredhis
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 Iheard theLord’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.”