The Book of the Prophet Isaiah 06 Isaiah is Chosen and Consecrated as a Prophet

 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah 06

Isaiah is Chosen and Consecrated as a Prophet

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 had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.

3 And they cried out to one another, saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts! The whole earth is full of his glory!"

4 And the doorposts shook at the voice of him who cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 Then I said, "Woe is me! I am perishing! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!" 

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.

7 He touched my mouth with it and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is purged."

8 After this I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am; send me."

9 Then he said, "Go and tell this people: 'Hearing you do not understand, and seeing you do not perceive.'"

10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, so that they may hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn and be healed.

11 Then I said, "How long, O Lord?" And he answered, "Until the cities are laid waste, without inhabitant, and the houses are without inhabitant, and the land is utterly desolate.

12 Then the Lord removes men from it, and there is great desolation in the midst of the land.

13 But if even a tenth of it remains, it will return to pasture. Like the oak and the holm oak, which, after they have fallen off, remain firm, so the holy seed will be its firmness."