Old Testament · Prophets

Isaiah chapter 6

In the year King Uzziah died, I saw sitting on a , high and lifted up, and the hem of his robe filled the entire . stood above him, each with six wings: two covering their faces, two covering their feet, and two for flying.They called out to each other: “ — Yahweh, ! The whole earth is full of his !”The doorframes shook at the sound of their voices, and the whole house filled with .Then I said, “! I’m destroyed, because I’m a man with , living among a people with contaminated lips, and my own eyes have just seen , Yahweh, Commander of angel armies!”Then one of the seraphim flew to me, carrying a he had taken from the with tongs.He touched it to my mouth and said, “Look — this has touched your lips. Your is taken away; .”Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Who should I send? ?” And I said, “ — send me!”He said, “Go and tell this people: ‘. Keep looking, but never see.’”“Make the hearts of this people . Make their ears dull. Shut their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and — and be .”Then I said, “, Lord?” And he answered: “Until cities lie in ruins with no one living in them, until houses stand empty, until the land is completely wasted,”“until Yahweh has , and the whole land is abandoned.”And even if is left in it, it will be burned again. But like an oak or a terebinth that leaves a when it is cut down, that stump is .