Isaiah 6
1IN the year in which Ozias the king died I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne; and the house was filled with His glory.
2And seraphs stood around Him, each having six wings; and with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered the feet, and two they used in flying.
3And they cried one to another and said: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is filled with His glory.
4And the lintel of the door was shaken with the sound of their cry, and the house was filled with smoke.
5Whereupon I said, Ah! woe is me! (for I was confounded) for, being a man and having unclean lips, and dwelling among a people of unclean lips, I have [still] seen with mine eyes the king the Lord of Hosts.
6Then one of the seraphs was sent to me and he had in his hand a live coal which he had taken from the altar with the tongs.
7And having touched my lips he said, Behold this hath touched thy lips, and it will take away thine iniquities and purge away thy sins.
8Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go to this people? And I said, Behold, here am I: send me.
9And He said: Go and say to this people: Hearing you shall hear, though you may not understand: and seeing you shall see, though you may not perceive:
10for the heart of this people is stupefied; and their ears are dull of hearing; and they have shut their eyes, that for awhile they may not see with their eyes; and hear with their ears; and understand with their hearts; and return that I may heal them.
11Whereupon I said, For how long? O Lord! And He said, Until cities be wasted so as not to be habitable; and houses, so that there be no men; and the land be left utterly desolate:
12And after this God will remove the men far away.
13They indeed who are left in the land shall be multiplied; for still about the tenth is in it; and shall again be for a prey, and be like the ilex and like the oak when it hath fallen from its station.