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 it stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
3 One cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts;the whole earth is full of His glory.”
4 The posts of the door moved at the voice of him who cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am undone because 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 with a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar in his hand.
7 And he laid it on my mouth, and said, “This has touched your lips, and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.”
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”Then I said, “Here am I. Send me.”
9 He said, “Go, and tell this people:‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’
10 Make the heart of this people dull,and their ears heavy,and shut their eyes;lest they see with their eyes,and hear with their ears,and understand with their heart,and turn and be healed.”
11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”And He answered: “Until the cities are laid wastewithout inhabitants,and the houses without man,and the land is utterly desolate,
12 and the Lord has removed men far away,and there is a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth,and it shall return, and shall be burned,as a terebinth tree or as an oak,whose stump remains when it is cut down,so the holy seed is its stump.”