Isaiah 6
1 In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and the hem of his robe filled the temple.
2 Seraphim stood above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.
3 One called to the other: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; the whole earth is filled with his glory.”
4 The doorframes shook at the sound of the one calling, and the temple filled with smoke.
5 Then I said: “Woe to me, I am lost! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding a live coal in his hand that he had taken from the altar with tongs.
7 He touched my mouth and said: “Look, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin is atoned for.”
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” And I said: “Here I am; send me.”
9 He said: “Go and tell this people: ‘Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.’”
10 Make this people's heart dull, make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes. Otherwise they may see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, turn back, and be healed.”
11 I asked: “How long, Lord?” He answered: “Until the cities lie in ruins, without inhabitants, the houses without people, and the land is devastated and desolate.”
12 The LORD will send the people far away, and the desolation will be great throughout the land.
13 Even if a tenth remains in it, it will be burned again. But like the terebinth and the oak, which leave a stump when felled, the holy seed is its stump.
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