The English Standard Version Bible:  Containing the Old and New Testaments with Apocrypha. Crossway, 1 Jan. 2015. Web. 24 Jan. 2015.

Isaiah's Vision of the Lord

6 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train1 of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had usix 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:

u“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;

vthe whole earth is full of his glory!”2

4 And wthe foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and xthe house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! yFor I am lost;zfor 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 aKing, 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 btouched 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 cus?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” 9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people:

d“‘Keep on hearing,3 but do not understand;

keep on seeing,4 but do not perceive.’

10  Make the heart of this people dull,5

  and their ears heavy,

 and blind their eyes;

glest they see with their eyes,

and hear with their ears,

and understand with their hearts,

and turn and be healed.”

11  Then I said, h“How long, O Lord?”

"Until icities 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  jAnd though a tenth remain in it,

it will be burned6 again,

like a terebinth or an oak,

whose stump remains

when it is felled.”

lThe holy seed₇ is its stump.

Footnotes

[1] 6:1 Or hem 
[2] 6:3 Or may his glory fill the whole earth 
[3] 6:9 Or Hear indeed 
[4] 6:9 Or see indeed 
[5] 6:10 Hebrew fat 
[6] 6:13 Or purged 
[7] 6:13 Or offspring