 1 In the year that king Uzziah died I then saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphs. 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 called to another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of His glory. 4 The door posts moved at the voice of the one who called and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then I said, Woe is me. For I am undone. For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live 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 seraphs flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, snatched with tongs from the altar. 7 He laid it on my mouth and said, This has touched your lips. Your iniquity is taken away and your sin purged. 8 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, You hear indeed, but do not understand. And seeing you see, but do not know. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes. Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed. 11 Then I said, Lord, how long? He answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant and the houses without man and the land laid waste, a desolation. 12 Until the Lord has moved men far away and the desolation in the midst of the land is great. 13 Yet a tenth will remain and then it will be savaged+ again. But like a terebinth and an oak tree when they lose their leaves, life+ is still in them. Likewise, the holy seed will be restored+.
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