⁵ The Lord ^(A)descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and ^(B)proclaimed the name of the Lord. ⁶ The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ^(C)“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and ^(D)gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast ^(E)love and faithfulness, ^7 (F)keeping steadfast love for thousands,^{[a] (G)}forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but ^(H)who will by no means clear the guilty, ^(I)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Isaiah's Vision of the Lord

6 In the year that ^(A)King Uzziah died I ^(B)saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train^[a] of his robe filled the temple. ² Above him stood the seraphim. Each had ^(C)six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ³ And one called to another and said:

⁴ And ^(F)the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and ^(G)the house was filled with smoke. ⁵ And I said: “Woe is me! ^(H)For I am lost; ^(I)for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the ^(J)King, the Lord of hosts!”

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